Social Security, Medicare Ships’ Hulls Now Taking on Water – and Far Sooner Than Projected

Social Security, Medicare Ships’ Hulls Now Taking on Water – and Far Sooner Than Projected: The 2018 Social Security and Medicare trustees’ reports have been released. For the first time in several years they contain some big (in addition to their usual bad) news: the combined Social Security trust funds and the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will begin drawing down their reserves this year, on their respective ways to eventual depletion. In the case of