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The Urban Institute recently released a study showing that the average person who turns 65 this year will receive more benefits from Medicare than they paid in.  Their study looked at several common living scenarios for people of that age, covering low and high income earners, married and single households, and couples with one or two wage earners, and adjusting payments into the system for inflation.

The full study can be found here, and we plan to discuss it in more detail in the future, but my initial thought is this:  How can a program be considered viable if the average person in almost every imaginable financial situation is receiving more in benefits than they paid in?

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