… your hospital coverage and other things in the Medicare, because the Medicare Part A trust fund is gone. For those that don't understand, and that's most of us in Medicare, The portion of your payroll tax that goes to Medicare, about 38, 40% of it is covered by the trust fund. That's the hospital portion, as we typically refer to it. The rest of it actually comes out of the general fund. (21:55–22:07)
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Asserts that 38-40% of Medicare funding comes from the trust fund.
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