{"id":16768,"date":"2020-09-04T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16768"},"modified":"2020-09-04T10:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:16:43","slug":"covid-19-is-accelerating-the-medicare-trust-funds-dive-toward-insolvency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16768","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 is accelerating the Medicare trust fund\u2019s dive toward insolvency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gretchen Jacobson for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed another victim: Medicare\u2019s trust fund. The Congressional Budget Office released a report Wednesday projecting that Medicare\u2019s federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which helps pay for Medicare beneficiaries\u2019 hospital bills, will be insolvent by fiscal year 2024. That means there won\u2019t be enough money in the trust fund to fully pay hospitals, doctors, and nursing homes for the care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/09\/03\/covid-19-accelerating-medicare-trust-fund-dive-toward-insolvency\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>(By Gretchen Jacobson for STAT) The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed another victim: Medicare\u2019s trust fund. The Congressional Budget Office released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768","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=16768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16769,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768\/revisions\/16769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}