claim: medicare "only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending."
author: tim pawlenty
evidence_1: may 1, 2012 ... since 1970, health care spending per capita has grown at an average annual  rate of 8.2% or 2.4 percentage points faster than nominal gdp. .... and the net  cost of private insurance (including administrations costs, additions to reserves,  rate credits and dividends, premium taxes, and profits or losses).
evidence_2: sep 1, 2010 ... medicare's spending needs to be controlled, but high costs aren't the only  problem with the program. medicare reduces individual freedom, and ... the main  funding sources are a 2.9 percent federal payroll tax and general revenues,  which are mainly income tax revenues. medicare is less a "sacred bond ...
evidence_3: of spending on home health services (42 percent). some people have coverage  from more than one source. in 2014, about 11 million people were enrolled in  both. medicare and medicaid (boards of trustees 2015). medicaid pays for either  a portion or all of the medicare premium and out-of-pocket health care expenses  for.
evidence_4: mar 9, 2017 ... 50. 75. 100. 125. 150. civil war. world war i. great. depression. world war ii.  percentage of gdp. federal debt held. by the public. 2000. 2005. 2010 ....  consists of spending for medicare (net of premiums and other offsetting receipts),  medicaid, and the children's health insurance program, as well as.
evidence_5: the federal government has closed out its fourth straight year of trillion-dollar- plus deficits, and the imperative to rein in spending has never been greater.  because all government spending gets paid for through either taxes or borrowing —both of which burden the economy—spending reduction is an essential  condition for ...