Medicare Trustees Report To Spark Renewed GOP Defense Of Reform Bill
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The federal government will start dipping into the Medicare trust fund nine years earlier than expected, moving the insolvency date up to 2019, trustees report. The Medicare reform law’s payments to health plans and rural providers contribute to the revised outlook.
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