- Medicare
- Where the Money Comes From
- Getting Benefits
- How Medicare Spends Its Money
- The Medicare Drug Benefit: Part D of Medicare
- Medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- Private Health Plans in Medicare
- Medicare and Home Care
- Gaps in Medicare
- What is the History of Medicare?
- The Future of Medicare
- Medicare's Fiscal Future
- Health Savings Accounts and Medical Savings Accounts
- Experts to Contact on Medicare
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Medicare
Medicare is a social insurance program that provides health insurance coverage to over 48 million Americans—almost everyone over age 65 and recipients of Social Security disability benefits. Pressures to curb health care spending, the projected insolvency of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and concerns about gaps in coverage that leave beneficiaries exposed to significant health care costs will shape the evolution of the Medicare program.
