Medicare On “Unsustainable Trajectory”

Charles Blahous, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a public trustee for Social Security and Medicare, breaks down the 2014 Medicare Trustees Report. According to Blahous, Medicare is on an “unsustainable long-term trajectory” and poses a bigger challenge than Social Security for federal lawmakers because of rising costs associated with the aging of baby boomers.

Read the entire analysis here.

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