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Dr. Thomas Saving, an economics professor at Texas A&M University and a former trustee of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, offered a grim picture. He said Medicare and Medicaid are essentially unfunded liabilities for the federal government, including 2 day diet pill estimates that by 2020, 19 percent of payroll taxes would be needed to pay for Medicare, 37 percent by 2058, and 49 percent by 2080. To balance Medicare's budget, he said nearly 20 million people nationwide would have to be denied benefits by 202o.

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Democrats on the panel took issue with some of Saving's figures and with his argument that preventive services don't create savings in the long-run. Noting the underlying political tension, state Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, said 2 day diet lingzhi that the expansion of Medicaid — and federal matching lingzhirates along with it — occured under both the Bush and Obama administrations.