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Ron Johnson: “Medicare will run a deficit of about $4.3 trillion according…”

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Senator Johnson at the Budget Committee

Published June 11, 2014 | Video Starts at 00:24

I'm assuming you had a chance to kind of bone up on the issues. I did, and I appreciated our conversation and your PowerPoint, which I … Medicare will run a deficit of about $4.3 trillion according to the president's 2015 budget. … of about $4.3 trillion. Does that sound about right to you? I don't have those numbers in front of me. It's about $3 trillion in revenue, about $7.3 trillion in benefits. (00:24–00:33)

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Asserts that Medicare will have a $4.3 trillion deficit as per the 2015 budget.

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