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America's $17 trillion plus in debt, $19 trillion in unfunded liabilities. and while they prepare to carry that burden, we're learning that certain benefits like social security and medicare, that's still going to dry out. take a look. >> as reported last year when considered on a combined basis, social securities, retirement, and disability programs have dedicated funds sufficient to cover benefits until 2033. joerl, medicares hospital insurance trust fund will have resources to cover full benefits until 2026. the president recognizes how central reform and attempting to work on a bipartisan ...

America's $17 trillion plus in debt, $19 trillion in unfunded liabilities. and while they prepare to carry that burden, we're learning that certain benefits like social security and medicare, that's still going to dry out. take a look. >> as reported last year when considered on a combined basis, social securities, retirement, and disability programs have dedicated funds sufficient to cover benefits until 2033. joerl, medicares hospital insurance trust fund will have resources to cover full benefits until 2026. the president recognizes how central reform and attempting to work on a bipartisan ...

America's $17 trillion plus in debt, $19 trillion in unfunded liabilities. and while they prepare to carry that burden, we're learning that certain benefits like social security and medicare, that's still going to dry out. take a look. >> as reported last year when considered on a combined basis, social securities, retirement, and disability programs have dedicated funds sufficient to cover benefits until 2033. joerl, medicares hospital insurance trust fund will have resources to cover full benefits until 2026. the president recognizes how central reform and attempting to work on a bipartisan ...

Deal with it. it won't be done now, simply because there is not a mandate to do it. you set the stage for it; such as, having accounts for younger people in social security, change the delivery of healthcare, do it in a positive way. you set the ground work. you won't make headway with the congress. shoot for 2014 and 2016. >> rick, should entitlements be off the table entirely? >> i don't think they should i'm not one of those liberals. i would love to see the focus shift to where they are look at entitlements in terms of cleaning it up. it should be a constant reform all the time. weed out t...

From the planet money piece, disability has been a defacto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills. but it wasn't supposed to serve this purpose. it is not a retraining program designed to get people back on their feet. that piece sparked huge controversy as we enter budgets and washington contemplates so-called entitlement reformt, stakes are very high. so high that eight commissioners of the social security administration wrote a detailed letter to npr to express concerns with the report stating quote as former commissioners of the age sin we could not sit on the ...