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  • Growing number of Medicare beneficiaries
  • Fewer workers projected per HI beneficiary
  • People living longer
  • Where Medicare dollars go
  • Medicare spending rises after holding steady in late 1990s
  • Medicare revenue sources
  • Medicare spending: a larger part of the federal budget
  • Medicare taxes
  • Medicare beneficiary out-of-pocket spending
  • Seniors least likely to be uninsured
  • Medicare spending vs. private health insurance spending
  • Medicare costs per person
  • Medicare beneficiary cost-sharing liability
  • Medicare recipients enrolling in managed care expected to surge
  • Cost of Medicare prescription drug program