Retirement Weekly: Medicare is broken — and not in the way you might think

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For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex. Yet, Medicare is broken – and not in the way most people think. 

Every few years, news organizations raise the alarm that Medicare’s primary trust fund may go bankrupt within a decade, absent congressional intervention. Medicare is massive. It’s the largest health financing program in the country, accounting for nearly 5% of GDP.

But…