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Medicare reform requires immediate legislative attention during the current presidential term, despite projections that the hospital insurance trust fund will remain solvent until 2029. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

August 9, 2001

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Medicare Reform — Now Is the Time

GWGail R. WilenskyProject HOPE

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Reforming Medicare, which serves persons who are 65 years of age or older and many persons with disabilities, is a popular topic whenever the program's solvency is perceived to be at stake. Given that the latest report of the Medicare trustees predicts that the hospital insurance trust fund will be solvent until 2029 (although trust-fund payments will exceed trust-fund income by 2016),1 should Medicare reform still be regarded as requiring the near-term attention of the public and Congress? I believe that now — by which I mean this presidential term, if not this session of Congress — is precisely the . . .

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