A Framework for Medicare Reform

John Goodman

If workers and their employers put 4 percent of payroll into an account each year to replace the government’s obligation, after one generation the burden of Medicare as a percent of national income will be no larger than it is today. Calculations made by Former Medicare Trustee Thomas Saving, Andrew Rettenmaier and their colleagues at Texas A & M.

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A Framework for Medicare Reform

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