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SPOTLIGHT: Medicare funds should be gone by 2017
May 13, 2009 — 1:00pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Here's grim (if not surprising) news: Trustees are estimating that the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted in 2017, two years earlier than they'd previously expected. Medicare's annual costs were 3.2 percent of the gross domestic product in 2008, according to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Article
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