Actual:
Medicare $206,921.32
Social Security $264,391
Medicare contribution thru FICA is only approx 1.50% while the SS contrib thru FICA is approx 6.5%. Yet you are reflecting contributing about the same for medicare as SS. How?While SS can be “fixed”, Medicare is not a sustainable program. The govt expends 900 billion a year on medicare benefits and collects approx 125 billion in FICA contributions annually for a 700 billion dollar annual deficit. It is not sustainable. The entire program needs to be revamped more along the lines of a voucher system as Ryan has proposed if we want to make it close to self sustaining.
Recall that medicare is paid on an UNLIMITED level of income and is not limited like SS.