{"id":195,"date":"2015-07-28T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=195"},"modified":"2015-07-28T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:55:57","slug":"whos-right-on-health-care-cost-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Right on Health-Care Cost Projections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<a>LOUISE SHEINER)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sustainability of the U.S. fiscal outlook depends on the path of health costs, particularly Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.\u00a0 If health costs continue to rise more rapidly than gross domestic product, then Medicare will be increasingly unaffordable.\u00a0 The recent slowdown in Medicare spending has been touted as evidence that the health cost curve has finally \u201cbent\u201d and that the Medicare financing problem can be managed with modest changes in policy. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2015\/07\/27\/whos-right-on-health-care-cost-projections\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0LOUISE SHEINER) The sustainability of the U.S. fiscal outlook depends on the path of health costs, particularly Medicare, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}