“At a time when some are calling for a complete government takeover of the American health-care system, the Medicare trustees have delivered a dose of reality,” CMS's Seema Verma said. (Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg)
The Trump administration's top Medicare official used an annual report on the program's fiscal outlook to attack proposals by some Democrats to expand government health-care coverage to all Americans.
The federal trust fund that finances much of the health-care program for the elderly and disabled is projected to run out in 2026, the same year forecast in the most recent projections published in June, trustees for Medicare said in a report Monday.
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