Follow up to Social Security Board of Trustees: Economic Downturn Leads to Worsening of Long-Range Financing Outlook, this news: “the Kaiser Family Foundation has issued a new chartpack and factsheet with updated information on Medicare spending and financing, including new projections and historical data about the program’s hospital trust fund, which is projected to be exhausted in 2017. The chartpack also includes recent Kaiser public opinion data highlight the public’s views on Medicare and on variation options for addressing its fiscal shortfalls.”