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Phase 1: Enactment & build · Step 1.2

Create the UHP Trust Fund

Months 0–12 · Treasury (managing trustee), UHADiscuss this step
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Medicare general revenue & net trust fund draw

Medicare general-revenue funding is redirected into the UHP Trust Fund.

Result
$509.6B
$509.6B → $509.6B
Per resident, per year
$1,494
÷ 341.1M people
Per household
$3,855
÷ 132.2M households

How it's calculated

#StepArithmeticValue
1
2024 amount (CMS NHE Tables 5-1 to 5-4)
Sources: CMS Office of the Actuary (2025)
$509.6B
2
Treatment: redirected
$0.0B
3
Under the plan
$509.6B
Trade-off: Existing public money keeps flowing, now to UHP instead of separate programs.
Sources: CMS Office of the Actuary (2025)