>>Are you bigoted against old people? It certainly sounds like it to me.

No, I'm just finding out how it must feel to be a Fake News reporter, carving ideas and statistics to suit a predetermined narrative. So far it seems easier to do things this way than to be entirely neutral and accurate.

As an example, some Medicare schedules are largely paid out of general taxation meaning the 2.9% is not the entirety of contribution. And that $47T deficit includes some future costs of current payers- meaning it's no fairer to lump it on boomers than to expect the young to pay for all of it. Also, a primary focus of the ACA was to drive down overhead and waste: any resulting medical deflation can make a huge difference to that calculated deficit, especially when Medicare cost inflation has been slower than other medical inflation and could feasibly enter a deflationary period. That's assuming this isn't one of the ACA focuses that the President remains determined to repeal while he seems to have gone off his excellent previous idea of negotiating a better deal from Big Pharma et al. Instead, too much focus is on driving down Medicare physician payments that already are disappointing by international standards in many specialties. So lets not underestimate the possibility of a mighty screw-up.