1. Congressional Budget Office: Ten-Year Medicare Spending Projections, Jan. 2010–Aug. 2014
Projected Medicare spending ($ billions)
Projected Medicare spending in 2020:
As of January 2010: $1,038 billion
As of August 2014: $ billion
Source: Based on analysis by Chapin White, now of RAND Health, of Congressional Budget Office projections of Medicare outlays, from Budget and Economic Outlook, various vintages. (Presented by Melinda Buntin, Vanderbilt University, to The Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors, July 7, 2014.)