Medicare Budget Crisis Looms

Medicare's trustees warned Tuesday that the program's biggest fund would run out of money in just eight years.  The prediction - issued in an annual report on Medicare and Social Security finances - offered the bleakest assessment of Medicare's future in years and reflects growing concerns among policy experts that the nation's health care spending is unsustainable.

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