The 2018 Medicare Trustees Report: Fiscal and policy challenges

Joseph Antos and Robert Moffit

AEI Economic Perspectives, 2018

Abstract: The latest report finds that total Medicare costs will grow rapidly over the next two decades as the large baby-boom generation ages into the program, leading to long-term financial shortfalls.

Keywords: Medicare; Social Security; baby boomers; AEI Economic Perspectives; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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