2008 Annual Report: Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds
Trustees Report & Trust Funds: “The Medicare Program is the second-largest social insurance program in the U.S., with 44.1 million beneficiaries and total expenditures of $432 billion in 2007. The Boards of Trustees for Medicare (also Boards) report annually to the Congress on the financial operations and actuarial status of the program. Beginning in 2002, …