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Several newspapers on Thursday published editorials responding to a Medicare trustees report issued Tuesday that said the trust fund Medicare uses to pay for beneficiaries’ hospital care will be insolvent by 2017, two years earlier than predicted by trustees last year. Summaries of the editorials appear below.

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