
Social Security and Medicare Faced Serious Shortfalls Even Before the Coronavirus
Social Security and Medicare are facing serious financial difficulty in the near future.
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Social Security and Medicare are facing serious financial difficulty in the near future.
High healthcare spending is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if it leads to better health outcomes. However, that is not the case in the United States.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2020/04/why-are-americans-paying-more-for-healthcare
Healthcare in the United States is very expensive — but we don’t get what we pay for.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2020/03/why-the-american-healthcare-system-underperforms
The proportion of the population who are uninsured began increasing in 2017.
The rising cost of prescription drugs is a key driver of overall healthcare spending in the U.S. This trend has significant implications not only for Americans who rely on medications, but also for our nation’s budget and fiscal outlook.
Overall healthcare costs — including all private and public spending — are anticipated to rise by an average of 5.5 percent per year over the next decade.
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports, which show that these vital programs are on an unsustainable path.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/04/five-charts-about-the-future-of-social-security-and-medicare
Significant damage was done to America’s fiscal outlook over the past year.
Programs that millions of Americans depend on and care about may be feeling a squeeze from interest costs on our high and rising national debt.
The dust has barely settled on the midterm elections, but there are a number of key fiscal issues not only facing the current Congress in coming weeks, but also awaiting the new Congress, which will convene in early 2019.