The $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit in the fiscal year ... ranks near the bottom as a percentage of GDP. Spending is below average, but not such a standout. The historical view is essential ...

As Senate Republicans go deep into reconciliation bill-drafting mode, Medicare is increasingly coming up as a potential ...

Amidst heated current discussions of federal spending, tax cuts, and budget deficits ... costs of Medicare Advantage remain a critical policy issue. Medicare was 14 percent of federal outlays ...

A new poll shows most U.S. adults don't think the government is overspending on the programs Republicans in Congress have ...

Data from the White House Office of Management and Budget indicates that about 12 percent of federal spending this year will be on Medicare, about 1 in 8 dollars the government disburses.

Except it doesn’t. Since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, there has been insignificant growth in federal outlays as a percentage of gross national product. In fact, excluding Social Security and ...

The United States is not at war, but that is what makes the latest report from the Congressional Budget ... drivers of federal spending growth will not. Social Security and Medicare spending ...

Medicare coverage of weight loss drugs, if authorized, would increase federal spending by about $35B from 2026 to 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of an illustrative ...

I haven’t been able to find anything that reveals quite as much about the current predicament as simply separating health spending from everything else. The $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit ...

The latest Congressional Budget ... remaining 33 percent is due to growth in interest payments on the debt. By far the largest mandatory spending program driving this trend is Medicare, which ...

Before Medicare was introduced in 1965, about 70 percent ... that Medicare spending is growing faster than the U.S. economy and gobbling up a greater share of the federal budget and GDP, the ...