Medicare financing, primarily for health care for the elderly, rose as a part of the total budget during this period to 16.4 percent from 15.6 percent.

In the 1990s, Newt Gingrich tried to force drastic cuts in Medicare financing.

If next year's report makes a similar finding, as seems likely, Medicare financing is due for a lopsided shakeup.

As a bipartisan commission wrestles with restructuring Medicare financing for the next century, it needs to modernize Medicare's benefits.

He supported reducing the growth in Medicare financing, not cutting Medicare itself.

Medicare financing of graduate medical studies and charity care is another concern.

And with the Bush Administration pushing for substantial cuts in Medicare financing, they warn that the system could collapse without immediate help.

The suspension of Medicaid and Medicare financing affects only new patients, not current residents.

He wished to hospitalize her for further tests and was angry at difficulties with Medicare financing.

Last spring, Federal officials threatened to cut off Medicare financing after the state's inspection turned up those problems.