{"id":2264,"date":"2004-03-23T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/03\/23\/just-our-luck-medicaid-broke-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2004-03-23T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T20:34:35","slug":"just-our-luck-medicaid-broke-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/23\/just-our-luck-medicaid-broke-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Our Luck &#8211; Medicaid Broke in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3080'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kureall.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"326\" align=\"left\">WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Medicare will have to begin dipping<br \/>\n        into its trust fund this year to keep up with expenditures and will go<br \/>\n        broke by 2019 without changes in a program that is swelling because of<br \/>\n        rising health costs, trustees reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Social Security&#8217;s finances showed little change, and its projected insolvency<br \/>\ndate remained 2042.<\/p>\n<p><em>What a coincidence! Medicare will run out in 2019 &#8211; the year the<br \/>\n          Dowbrigade becomes eligible! It&#8217;s enough to make a lesser mind paranoid.<br \/>\n          Actually,<br \/>\n        this might be good news for the Dowbrigade, since our social security<br \/>\n        checks will keep coming until we hit 89. At this moment a secret conclave<br \/>\n        of shaman, herbalists, witch doctors, lamas and assorted other purveyors<br \/>\n        of esoteric knowledge are working on the ultimate medicine. The final<br \/>\n        solution, on the health front.&nbsp;One capsule cures all. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of course, it will not be available to the general public, since<br \/>\n          the anticipated supply will be quite limited, and pharmaceutical companies<br \/>\n        and world leaders would literally kill for the formula if they knew it<br \/>\n        existed.&nbsp; However, limited quantities may be available to readers<br \/>\n        of the Dowbrigade News, through DB Virtually Natural Pharmaceuticals.&nbsp;Stay<br \/>\n        tuned for Paypal info&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>story from <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20040323\/D81G7NOG0.html\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\">Worth1000<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Medicare will have to begin dipping into its trust fund this year to keep up with expenditures and will go broke by 2019 without changes in a program that is swelling because of rising health costs, trustees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/23\/just-our-luck-medicaid-broke-in-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}