Questions about Social Security and Medicare Question: What recommendations do you have for how to handle the projected shortfalls between income and expenditures, for both the Social Security trust funds and those for Medicare? Consider such questions as Should we consider Social Security and Medicare as separate concerns, or should we treat them all as one big problem? Do you have different recommendations for the different programs, or do you recommend the same course of action Would you recommend reductions in benefits, increases in payroll taxes, increases in the number of actively working employees (such as by increasing the number of employable immigrants, or pushing the age of eligibility back to a later age, etc.), or alternates? Questions about Social Security and Medicare Question: What recommendations do you have for how to handle the projected shortfalls between income and expenditures, for both the Social Security trust funds and those for Medicare? Consider such questions as Should we consider Social Security and Medicare as separate concerns, or should we treat them all as one big problem? Do you have different recommendations for the different programs, or do you recommend the same course of action Would you recommend reductions in benefits, increases in payroll taxes, increases in the number of actively working employees (such as by increasing the number of employable immigrants, or pushing the age of eligibility back to a later age, etc.), or alternates