Medicare is America's second largest entitlement program and this year will account for 14 percent of the Federal budget, 3.2 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and is growing rapidly so that by the end of the Medicare Trustees 75-year projection period, 2080, the Medicare...

Social Security has been an extremely popular program over its 70 years of existence. It has provided retirement, life insurance and disability benefits to workers and their families. Through the years, benefits have been expanded and adjusted, new groups of workers have been covered, and taxes...