{"id":4698,"date":"2016-10-15T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2016-10-15T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:02:17","slug":"budget-deficit-widens-social-security-medicare-cited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4698","title":{"rendered":"Budget Deficit Widens &#8211; Social Security &#038; Medicare Cited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing higher spending on Social Security and Medicare as a driving force behind America&#8217;s fiscal imbalance, Reuters Washington Reporter\u00a0Lindsay Dunsmuir examines the widening 2016\u00a0budget deficit in an article posted on\u00a0www.reuters.com. She observes that these programs, in conjunction with &#8220;slower-than-expected revenues,&#8221; have driven the deficit to 3.2% of GDP, up from 2.5% last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-economy-budget-idUSKBN12E2B5\" target=\"_blank\">Read her analysis here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Citing higher spending on Social Security and Medicare as a driving force behind America&#8217;s fiscal imbalance, Reuters Washington Reporter\u00a0Lindsay Dunsmuir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}