Photo: #Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, center, speaks Tuesday about the Social Security and Medicare trust fund report. Behind him are Treasury Secretary John Snow, right, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, left.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, center, speaks Tuesday about the Social Security and Medicare trust fund report. Behind him are Treasury Secretary John Snow, right, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, left. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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The Medicare scare

Broadcast: Midmorning, 05/03/2006, 9:06 a.m.

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Medicare's trust fund may run short in 12 years according to the latest government figures. Kerri Miller talks with a budget hawk about the deficit and the troubling trends in both Medicare and Social Security.

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