Savings Expected from Slowdown in Medicare Spending

Savings Expected from Slowdown in Medicare Spending


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Keith Lind, AARP Public Policy Institute

  Published April 27, 2016


Medicare spending growth rates have remained low since 2009, thanks in part to reforms introduced in the Affordable Care Act. Medicare’s fiscal outlook in the mid and long term is stronger


and projected spending is dramatically lower than previously expected. Lower Medicare spending benefits taxpayers, the Medicare program, and beneficiaries.


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