{"id":16218,"date":"2020-06-10T10:33:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16218"},"modified":"2020-06-10T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:34:31","slug":"16218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16218","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening the Medicare Trust Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Medicare Trustee\u2019s report projected the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund to be depleted in 2026; however, with COVID-19 pandemic and increased unemployment; it\u2019s clear that HI Trust Fund will come under additional stress.\u00a0 Although no formal projections have been made, the Actuaries\u2019 worst-case scenario is calling for an expected exhaustion date closer to 2024.\u00a0 \u00a0In blog posted by <em>Health Affairs<\/em>, the authors have proposed strategy consists of a combination of financial policies accompanied by programmatic changes that rationalize parts of the Medicare program. Read blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/do\/10.1377\/hblog20200608.322412\/full\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7817\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-390x205.jpg 390w\" 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>The latest Medicare Trustee\u2019s report projected the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund to be depleted in 2026; however, with COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16218","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=16218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16220,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16218\/revisions\/16220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}