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Medicare accounts for more than one-fifth of all health spending in the U.S.. Its costs per beneficiary, about $12,000 in 2008, rose at an average annual rate of 8.5% a year from 1970 to 2007.

Medicare accounts for more than one-fifth of all health spending in the U.S.. Its costs per beneficiary, about $12,000 in 2008, rose at an average annual rate of 8.5% a year from 1970 to 2007.

[[Morton Kaplan]] predicted that Medicare would bankrupt the federal government. [http://books.google.com/books?id=1CYNtYgpqEoC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=medicare+bankrupt+morton+kaplan&source=bl&ots=8HUtCMTen7&sig=gFioCnI9z3oQh299uHfYysmVgf4&hl=en&ei=CuAzS9LSFcaMlAex7-WTBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false]

[[Morton Kaplan]] predicted that Medicare would bankrupt the federal government. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1CYNtYgpqEoC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=medicare+bankrupt+morton+kaplan&source=bl&ots=8HUtCMTen7&sig=gFioCnI9z3oQh299uHfYysmVgf4&hl=en&ei=CuAzS9LSFcaMlAex7-WTBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false]

==Fraud==

==Fraud==

The ''New York Times'' reported:

The ''New York Times'' reported:

* Medicare reported to Congress that, for the fiscal year of 2006, AdvanceMed’s investigations had found that only 7.5 percent of claims paid by Medicare were not supported by appropriate documentation. But the inspector general’s review indicated that the actual error rate was closer to 31.5 percent. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/business/21medicare.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Report Rejects Medicare Boast of Paring Fraud] - New York Times - August 20, 2008

* Medicare reported to Congress that, for the fiscal year of 2006, AdvanceMed’s investigations had found that only 7.5 percent of claims paid by Medicare were not supported by appropriate documentation. But the inspector general’s review indicated that the actual error rate was closer to 31.5 percent. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/business/21medicare.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Report Rejects Medicare Boast of Paring Fraud] - New York Times - August 20, 2008

==Medicaid==

==Medicaid==