Medicare Isn’t Broke—Yet
By Lawrence Wilson Medicare has a money problem. Or it will in about 10 years. It’s the sort of problem Dwight Eisenhower might have called important but not urgent, like a balloon payment on a mortgage or a roof that only leaks once in a while. Such problems are easy to ignore until it’s too late to fix them. Yet anything costing $1 trillion a year will inevitably become urgent soon…
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