Are You Paying Your Fair Share for Medicare? 

How much will you pay in Social Security and Medicare taxes over your lifetime? And how much can you expect to get back in benefits? Gene Steuerle and Stephanie Rennane find that the answers depend on many factors, including how much you earn, how long you work, and whether you are married. These tables show the results of their analysis.

Gene addresses the assumptions and methods used for the analysis in this Urban Institute Q&A. Finally, in a recent Government We Deserve column, Gene discusses the implications for people paying into and benefiting from Social Security and Medicare, and for the government’s ability to pay for these and other programs down the road.