13 min
The Medicare Cliff Tradeoffs
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One of Medicare's trust funds is set to run out of money within the next four years, but we've heard almost nothing about it the campaign trail. We explore what would happen, how it got this bad, and what can be done to fix it.
Guest: Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Learn more about Medicare and read a transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/15/the-medicare-cliff/
Explore more of our coverage of the 2020 election: https://tradeoffs.org/trumpbiden/
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One of Medicare's trust funds is set to run out of money within the next four years, but we've heard almost nothing about it the campaign trail. We explore what would happen, how it got this bad, and what can be done to fix it.
Guest: Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Learn more about Medicare and read a transcript of this episode: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/15/the-medicare-cliff/
Explore more of our coverage of the 2020 election: https://tradeoffs.org/trumpbiden/
Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
13 min