A Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded, and No One Is Sure Why

They don’t mention falling life expectancies. If people are dying before they use as much care as expected, small wonder costs would rise less.

TLDR: It's Medicare costs. It's plateauing rather than rising.

NYtimes links are just an advertisement for a paywall.<p>Which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t also use dark patterns to prevent cancellation.