Medicare: the end is near!

[bryan.fury]

Year in which the Medicare hospital trust fund will be "completely exhausted," according to the trustees : 2019







Year in which trustees predicted in 1991 that the fund would be exhausted : 2005





:smokey:

[Hassan i Sabbah]

Originally posted by bryan.fury
Year in which the Medicare hospital trust fund will be "completely exhausted," according to the trustees : 2019







Year in which trustees predicted in 1991 that the fund would be exhausted : 2005

I don't understand. The Trustees revised their prediction.

Is this good for the Trustees or bad for the Trustees?

[bryan.fury]

it's good for us because medicares demise is always 14/15 years from now!



it's bad for us because medicares demise is always 14/15 years from now!

[Hassan i Sabbah]

Originally posted by bryan.fury
it's good for us because medicares demise is always 14/15 years from now!



it's bad for us because medicares demise is always 14/15 years from now!
Brilliant! Then the end of Medicare is always, but only, near!

I like it.

[BRussell]

I bet Achilles will never catch up with that tortoise either.