{"id":1238,"date":"2012-01-31T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2012-01-31T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:42:30","slug":"cbo-medicare-spending-to-reach-1-trillion-by-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/cbo-medicare-spending-to-reach-1-trillion-by-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"CBO: Medicare Spending To Reach $1 Trillion By 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outlays for Medicare, Medicaid and \u201cother mandatory federal programs related to health care accounted for just under 40 percent of mandatory spending in 2011,\u201d the Congressional Budget Office reported today and will continue to grow into the future. For instance, a boost in the number of beneficiaries will increase Medicare spending to more than $1 trillion by 2022, reflecting 4.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, (GDP) and raise Medicaid spending to $605 billion:<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/01\/31\/415305\/cbo-medicare-spending-to-reach-1-trillion-by-2022\/\">CBO: Medicare Spending To Reach $1 Trillion By 2022 | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outlays for Medicare, Medicaid and \u201cother mandatory federal programs related to health care accounted for just under 40 percent of mandatory spending in 2011,\u201d the Congressional Budget Office reported today and will continue to grow into the future. For instance, a boost in the number of beneficiaries will increase Medicare spending to more than $1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[24,57,58,250,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}