{"id":26271,"date":"2026-07-15T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26271"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:00:30","slug":"medicare-gets-too-little-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26271","title":{"rendered":"Medicare gets too little attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that Medicare enrollment will reach 80 million within the next 10 years, and 100 million by 2075. With so many people relying on Medicare for their healthcare services, it is important to understand how the depletion of the Hospital Insurance trust fund (HI) will affect millions of Americans. Alicia H. Munnell, writing for the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, offers a perspective on the \u00a02026 Trustees report. Read Ms. Munnell\u2019s column <a href=\"https:\/\/crr.bc.edu\/medicare-finances-a-perspective-on-the-2026-trustees-report\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/crr.bc.edu\/medicare-finances-a-perspective-on-the-2026-trustees-report\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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>Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that Medicare enrollment will reach 80 million within the next 10 years,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9,15],"tags":[80,238,1810,61,62,65],"class_list":["post-26271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hi-trust-fund","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26271","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=26271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26272,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26271\/revisions\/26272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}