The Medicare System, which provides aide to elders, has reached a large amount of hard to fix problems in the past year. The problems have become increasingly greater than those of Social Security.

With the rise in health care costs today and the baby boom generation aging, Social Security and Medicare have become well known economically. Medicare has become a much larger problem across the country.

Medicare hospital insurance trust funds will be depleted in 2020, however, Social Security will exhaust its assets in 2041.