It’s becoming a ritual. Medicare trustees release an annual report projecting bankruptcy at some point in the not-so-distant future. And America yawns.

So why should 2014 be any different? Because, as former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin points out, it’s not just Medicare that Medicare is taking down, it’s the federal budget.

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