claim: "there was a recent report out that the premiums for medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program. so it is not financially solvent."
author: tim pawlenty
evidence_1: aug 18, 2015 ... there's often considerable confusion as to just how social security works, which  is perhaps not surprising given the program's complexity. ... according to the most  recent trustees' report, some 59 million americans were receiving retirement,  disability or survivors' benefits from the system; the total cost was ...
evidence_2: nov 22, 2017 ... most people ages 65 and over are entitled to medicare part a if they or their  spouse are eligible for social security payments and have paid payroll ...  enrollees pay monthly premiums and cost sharing for prescriptions, with costs  varying by plan, and those who do not receive low-income subsidies pay 5 ...
evidence_3: for both employees and the self-employed, the affordable care act (a.k.a.  obamacare) levies an additional 0.9% medicare payroll tax on earnings above  .... this does not imply that the social security program will have enough money  to pay for these benefits. ... this is called a “cost-of-living adjustment” or “cola.
evidence_4: resources and income are eligible for extra help to pay for their share of the  prescription drug coverage. .... relatives who live with them and depend on them  for at least one-half of their financial support. for the extra ... extra help need to  select a medicare-approved prescription drug plan if they have not done so  already.
evidence_5: jun 5, 2014 ... ryan advocates reforming medicare into a "premium support" program in which  retirees, starting in 2024, would get money to pay toward the cost of ... to back  his claim about medicare's financial condition, ryan cited four excerpts from the  latest annual report of the medicare trustees, published in may ...