“Can we keep Medicare from being insolvent by 2024?”

Can we keep Medicare from being insolvent by 2024?,” by Chris Farrell, MarketWatch

 

“Even as America’s Balkanized healthcare system struggles to deal with the pandemic, the coronavirus lurks behind another looming crisis. Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is projected to become insolvent in 2024 or 2026 — just three to five years from now.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

Medicare? Who worries about that anymore? The whole government is insolvent, printing and borrowing more than it takes in from taxes.