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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. [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]

[[Morton Kaplan]] predicted that Medicare would bankrupt the federal government.<ref>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</ref> In FYTD 2026, the US federal budget allocated about 15% of its total budget to Medicare, fexceeded only by Social Security, at about 23%<ref>https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/</ref>

==Fraud==

==Fraud==