The Medicare trustees issued their annual report on the program’s financial outlook on May 6. The headline is that the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is now expected to be unable to pay for all ...

The two trust funds tracking Medicare income and outgo—for Hospital Insurance (HI) and Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI)—are supposed to help policy makers see and address financial problems ...

Per the latest projections, the HI fund will only be able to pay 89 percent of its promised benefits in 2033, resulting in automatic benefit reductions. Make no mistake, Congress should work to avoid ...

SMI's forerunner, the Network of Networks, was created in the late 1990s as a way for healthcare reform-driven IDNs to meet and candidly discuss current events and issues and how they were impacting ...