Effects of Options on Spending for Medicare Benefits
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Notes Unless otherwise indicated, the years referred to in this report are calendar years. The estimates for the next 10 years were generated using the Congressional Budget Office's March 2012 baseline projections of Medicare spending, and the analysis of longer-term effects was based on the agency's June 2012 long-term projections of Medicare spending. (Those were the most recent projections available when much of the analysis was performed.) Numbers in the text and tables may not add up to totals because of rounding.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013