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The Bill For Medicare Insolvency Is Coming Due, And It’s Not Pretty

The Social Security and Medicare trust funds incurred a net of over $132 billion in losses in 2025 — losses that will only grow in future years.

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Congress often appears to function via the mantra of “one step forward, four steps back.” Even when policymakers take action — as in recent steps to fight fraud in government programs — they continue to ignore bigger issues with entitlement spending.

The annual release of the Medicare trustees’ report illustrates the problem. This year’s report showed that, by the end of last year at least, the administration’s anti-fraud efforts had not delayed the program’s (technical) insolvency date. Meanwhile, another year passed without lawmakers acting to fix a program that has been functionally insolvent for years.

Contributing to Deficits

Other observers noted that the trustees’ report release provides an opportunity to reinforce how Social Security and Medicare are exacerbating our nation’s deficit problems. At a time when the federal government faces annual deficits approaching $2 trillion, these programs will appreciably worsen the problems Washington faces in the coming decades.

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