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Medicare costs are a major concern of Congress these days, and it is easy to see why. This program accounts for about 20 percent of personal health care expenditures in the United States and 11 percent of the federal budget.^1,2 Policy makers are worried not so much about the absolute costs as about the rate of increase. Medicare inflation has consistently outstripped the consumer price index, averaging about 10 percent per beneficiary annually since 1969.² Adding to the problem is the steady growth in the number of beneficiaries. As we are frequently reminded by the media, Medicare Part A's trust . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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