摘要：The trustees of the Medicare program have projected that Medicare will, in effect, go bankrupt in 10 years [1]. It faces a projected annual cost increase of some 7 percent, which will raise the program’s cost from $427 billion in 2007 to $844 billion in 2117 [2]. Many policy analysts have determined that, for the program to survive in a viable way, the government will need to double the taxation for it, cut its benefits in half, or combine these two approaches in some way [3]. Doubling the taxation would be a great burden on the young, who will have to pay those taxes, while cutting benefits in half would harm the old, whose medical treatment Medicare reimburses.
