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Medicare to Go Broke By 2019

 

From Associated Press

March 23, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Medicare will go broke by 2019 without changes in a program that is swelling in cost because of a new prescription drug benefit, trustees were to report today.

A source familiar with the trustees' report, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the go-broke date for Medicare has been moved up to 2019, seven years sooner than last year's estimate.

The existing surplus, built up by taxes on baby boomers, is dwindling just as they start retiring.

The Social Security trust fund was in better shape than Medicare's. The source said the retirement program would become insolvent in 2042 and that Social Security would begin paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes in 2018. That matched last year's estimates.

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