{"id":22869,"date":"2024-05-21T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22869"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:11:54","slug":"who-should-pay-for-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22869","title":{"rendered":"Who should pay for Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Chris Pope on May 20, 2024 for City Journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023,\u00a0Medicare spent an average of $16,710 on health-care benefits for 67 million covered beneficiaries. America\u2019s\u00a0161 million workers, who do not currently receive benefits, paid for the bulk of the program\u2019s cost. While this arrangement has successfully financed health care for elderly and disabled Americans unable to work, it\u2019s unlikely to be sustainable if Medicare\u2019s cost doubles over the coming decade, as projected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/who-should-pay-for-medicare\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-7817\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg 2393w, 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: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Pope on May 20, 2024 for City Journal In 2023,\u00a0Medicare spent an average of $16,710 on health-care benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[80,61,94],"class_list":["post-22869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22870,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions\/22870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}