But what's fascinating is sometime in the next decade you actually have Medicare taking more of the total economy than Social Security. But the thing that I was surprised no one noticed, if Medicare is at 6 point functioning in the 30 year window, gets as high as 6.9% of the entire economy. and then Social Security is another 5.9% of the economy and that's just the two earned retirement programs. (22:19–22:27)
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