Slower health spending helps buy Medicare 2 more years - May. 31, 2013

Slower health spending helps buy Medicare 2 more years

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Slower health care spending has helped buy Medicare more time before it will no longer be able to pay out 100% of benefits. But the program is still facing significant funding shortfalls.

A report released Friday by the trustees of Medicare and Social Security projects the magnitude of those shortfalls over the near- and long-term.
Slower health spending helps buy Medicare 2 more years - May. 31, 2013