Competition Or Insolvency? Medicare's Time For Choosing.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Some 62 million people are enrolled in Medicare today.
55% : Another way policymakers could expand the role of markets in Medicare is by authorizing the program's beneficiaries to contribute to tax-advantaged health savings accounts.
53% : By 2034, the CBO projects that Medicare will cost $1.74 trillion -- a sum equivalent to 17.3% of the federal budget and 4.2% of GDP.
52% : Medicare accounted for $832 billion of the $1.556 trillion the United States spent on healthcare entitlements in 2023.
51% : Implementing premium support in 2022 could have saved Medicare as much as $419 billion by 2026, the CBO estimated in a 2017 report.
51% : When Medicare enrollees shop for plans themselves, they will choose plans that offer the most bang for their buck.
50% : "Consequently, any effort to rein in federal spending -- and save the country from fiscal ruin -- must focus on federal health spending.
48% : There are other ways to inject additional market forces into Medicare.

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