Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/09/social-security-medicare-crisis-approaching/
Excerpt:
The annual Social Security trustees report is once again upon us, and this year it actually bears some good news: The projections give us an extra year before the trust fund is exhausted in 2035.
At least, this sounded like good news when I first heard it. Then I remembered that I have been writing about these trustees reports for more than 15 years. When I started, all these projections sounded comfortably far off — we had decades to fix the problem! Now we have 13 years. And in all that time, we have done nothing at all, except watch the date of insolvency advance.
In 2008, it was 2040, and the people likely to be worst affected — those who would be eligible to retire just as the trust fund was exhausted — were 35. Now, the people facing the most disruption are 54, much closer to retirement than to their college graduation.
In the meantime, the politics of fixing America’s old-age entitlements has gotten considerably worse.
Author(s): Megan McArdle
Publication Date: 9 June 2022
Publication Site: Washington Post