"Health reform has significantly improved Medicare's financial outlook, boosting revenues and making the program more efficient by cutting unnecessary costs. The HI trust fund is now projected to remain solvent nine years longer than before the [ACA] was enacted. Under the trustees' main projection, the HI program's 75-year shortfall is 1.11 percent of taxable payroll -- down from last year's estimate of 1.35 percent of payroll and much less than the 3.88 percent of payroll that the trustees estimated before health reform."  MORE >>