Health Exchanges: Common Ground for Medicare Reform?
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(Corrects fourth paragraph to clarify that the quote from Frakt was the title of a blog post.)
Medicare is on track to consume 7 percent of gross domestic product by 2035, double the current level, according to a Congressional Budget Office scenario that incorporates widely expected developments. On May 13, Medicare's trustees predicted that the program's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which helps cover benefits for future retirees, would be exhausted by 2024, five years earlier than predicted last year.