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Debt Digest | Medicare Fraud Dwarfs What Enforcement Recovers
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (761+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Medicare Fraud Dwarfs What Enforcement Recovers Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week's reading links and fiscal facts: Medicare fraud is baked into the program's design, and enforcement can't keep pace. The DOJ announced a…...
Debt Digest | Medicare's Fiscal Crisis is Getting Worse
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (845+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Medicare's Fiscal Crisis is Getting Worse Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week's reading links and fiscal facts: CBO's new projections confirm Medicare's fiscal crisis is getting worse. The CBO's February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook…...
Debt Digest | Medicare Advantage Stocks Tumble as Trump Administration Targets Overpayments
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (874+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Medicare Advantage Stocks Tumble as Trump Administration Targets Overpayments Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week's reading links and fiscal facts: Medicare Advantage stocks tumble as Trump administration targets overpayments. Pia Singh and Annika Kim…...
Why We Can't Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (383+ words) What might explain this relationship? Economic growth drives innovation and longer lifespans'but under Medicare's open-ended design, those gains automatically translate into higher costs for taxpayers. As medical technology advances and Americans live longer, Medicare automatically pays for more treatments, more…...