Per capita Medicare spending is falling
I did not expect to be reading this within my lifetime, and yet here it is:
Medicare spending isn’t just lower than experts predicted a few years ago. On a per-person basis, Medicare spending is actually falling.
That is from Margot Sanger-Katz, there is more here. Do please note that the program still faces fiscal pressures, in part due to the ongoing rise in “n,” namely future program beneficiaries.