The Facts on Medicare spending and financing Issue brief (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation) Cubanski, Juliette, author. Neuman, Tricia, author. Freed, Meredith, author. Health Expenditures -- statistics & numerical data Health Expenditures -- trends Medicare -- economics Medicare -- statistics & numerical data Medicare -- trends Medicare, the federal health insurance program for more than 60 million people ages 65 and over and younger people with long-term disabilities, helps to pay for hospital and physician visits, prescription drugs, and other acute and post-acute care services. This issue brief includes the most recent historical and projected Medicare spending data published in the 2019 annual report of the Boards of Medicare Trustees from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary (OACT) and the 2019 Medicare baseline and projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). [San Francisco, California] : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2019 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101754945-pdf 101754945 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101754945 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0