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11112227

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
22
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-12-18
pubmed:abstractText
We enter this century with an unprecedented federal budget surplus-$4.6 trillion over the next 10 years. A substantial portion of the surplus comes from savings in the health care sector. The 1997 Balanced Budget Act cut payments to Medicare providers and raised the premiums for individual beneficiaries, but we overshot the mark. Instead of balancing the budget, we generated a huge surplus. We underestimated the magnitude of Medicare savings. Medicare savings over the period from 1998 to 2007 represent an estimated 15% of the total budget surplus. Fifteen percent of the 10-year budget surplus from 2001 to 2010 comes to $680 billion. We also underestimated the drop-off in Medicaid coverage, as welfare reform took hold. In the year 2000 Medicare and Medicaid outlays were an estimated $104 billion less than projected just 5 years ago-representing an estimated 45% of the budget surplus this year, or about $1 trillion of the 10-year surplus.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0003-9926
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
160
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3357-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
A 2020 vision for American health care.
pubmed:affiliation
The Commonwealth Fund, c/o Best Assembly Inc, 373 South St, Eatontown, NJ 07724, USA. kd@cmwf.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article