dylan_matthews

... to table S-5. There you see numbers for how much is spent from 2014 to 2023 on each category of the budget: Social Security, defense, non-defense discretionary, and, yes, Medicare. Over 10 years, Obama's budget spends $6.668 trillion on Medicare. So ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/11/why-comparing-budgets-is-so-maddeningly-tough/