If you look at where we are today, where in today's dollars the average American family making average wages puts about $119,000 into the Medicare program over their lifetime in today's dollars, and that same family takes out of Medicare over their lifetime in today's dollars $357,000, as we all know, you cannot make that up with volume.
Corker highlights the financial imbalance in Medicare contributions and withdrawals.
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