The Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds.

The Social Security and Medicare programs face looming financial pressures, with trust fund depletions approaching unless ...

Medicare accounts for 10% of the federal budget, a share projected to grow to 18% by 2032, according to KFF. Medicare Advantage, the privatized option under Medicare, makes up 22% of the total ...

But even that goal could prove to be elusive. Around 24% of the $6.9 trillion federal budget goes to health insurance programs, with Medicare making up roughly half of the total. Social Security ...

The $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit in the fiscal year ... money pays for healthcare services. The largest share (44% in 2023) goes to Medicare, the healthcare program for the elderly ...

The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have contributed to closer projected ...

Amidst heated current discussions of federal spending, tax cuts, and budget deficits, there has been almost no consideration of the federal budgetary impact of the growth of Medicare Advantage ...

What most of us don’t know is why. Nearly two-thirds of the federal budget is allocated to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, other health services, and interest payments on the national debt.

The Trump administration's newly released Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal calls for ... At the same time, federal oversight of Medicare programs is ramping up in other ways.

Medicare is much the same. How to actually close the federal deficit There ... with the highest Medicaid share are firmly Democratic. So, I would expect every budget negotiation to include ...

The budget directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid and part of Medicare, to reduce the federal deficit by $880 billion over a decade. The Agriculture Committee ...

You can reach Bob on Signal at bobjherman.09. Medicare’s financial future unexpectedly got a lot rosier, at least according to some federal budget wonks. The Congressional Budget Office ...