{"id":13961,"date":"2019-09-05T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13961"},"modified":"2019-09-05T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:52:31","slug":"warnings-from-the-2019-medicare-trustees-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13961","title":{"rendered":"Warnings from the 2019 Medicare trustees report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare spending on a per-beneficiary basis rose sharply in 2018 and is anticipated to accelerate with the influx of baby boomers turning age 65 and rising health care costs according to the latest annual Medicare trustees report. In the attached report by Joseph Antos and Robert E. Moffit for American Enterprise Institute (AEI) they review Medicare\u2019s growing fiscal challenge and discuss possible Medicare reforms. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/medicare-reform-can-no-longer-be-ignored-warnings-from-the-2019-medicare-trustees-report\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRZeE1qYzJaR1E1WXpkayIsInQiOiI2eHI0ZEVGbCtETVJxaHlFaXI4OVNLYngzZWRtTEtxc05RNjE2K3g4b3JYVGgwVjRzaEk4cmZtMWtLZm5LTDFPOXhpWnJsTWt4citMTW5aVTRNT2dJVTNaQnBrZmpLQmJjclZyc0dVTkNiamhib3NQOFY4TzErTFJBbG1jWlJFSSJ9\">report here \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare spending on a per-beneficiary basis rose sharply in 2018 and is anticipated to accelerate with the influx of baby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13962,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions\/13962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}