mr. buchanan, is recognized for five minutes. mr. buchanan: thank you, mr. chairman, for holding such an important hearing. also look forward to working with you as chairman and the rest of the members on the subcommittee. also like to thank our witnesses for being here today. again-u i want to go over a -- i want to go over a couple points. medicare trustee which you projected, we touched on thisier, would become insol van hollen 2024 instead of -- insolvent 2024 instead of 2010. we are in florida so obviously it's a big issue all over the country but percentagewise much bigger in florida. where we are looking at projecting the 2024, one thing i don't believe was taken into account is the reduction or the doc fix or s.g.r. was taken into effect in terms of looking at insolsen have i. when we project this out and look down the road talking with doctors in our community, i'm very, very concerned a lot of them will have to go out of businesses. a lot of the big practices, we got another 30% cut we are looking at, but doesn't take into -- any impact in terms of

mr. buchanan. he has many medicare beneficiaries in his district -- we look for to is in sight. i would like to get a few things on the record. when did the medicare trustees expect the medicare hospital insurance fund to go bankrupt? >> 2024. >> what was the bankruptcy day in last year's report? >> it was 2029. >> in the course of one year, the medicare hi trust fund lost five years in solvency? is this something congress should be concerned about? >> i think it is definitely something that should be concerned about. as i note in my testimony, because trust fund balances or so low for several years going forward, the change in the insolvency date is quite possible. >> i can tell you that is certainly alarming to me that during the course of just one year, the medicare lost five years of solvency and is expected to go back route, as -- go bankrupt, as you stated, in 2024. it does not take a great deal of creativity to imagine a 2012 medicare trustees' report in which the hospital insurance trust fund insolvency date moves again by several years in either direction. are you sugge

mr. buchanan. he has many medicare beneficiaries in his district -- we look for to is in sight. i would like to get a few things on the record. when did the medicare trustees expect the medicare hospital insurance fund to go bankrupt? >> 2024. >> what was the bankruptcy day in last year's report? >> it was 2029. >> in the course of one year, the medicare hi trust fund lost five years in solvency? is this something congress should be concerned about? >> i think it is definitely something that should be concerned about. as i note in my testimony, because trust fund balances or so low for several years going forward, the change in the insolvency date is quite possible. >> i can tell you that is certainly alarming to me that during the course of just one year, the medicare lost five years of solvency and is expected to go back route, as -- go bankrupt, as you stated, in 2024. it does not take a great deal of creativity to imagine a 2012 medicare trustees' report in which the hospital insurance trust fund insolvency date moves again by several years in either direction. are you sugge

mr. buchanan. he has many medicare beneficiaries in his district -- we look for to is in sight. i would like to get a few things on the record. when did the medicare trustees expect the medicare hospital insurance fund to go bankrupt? >> 2024. >> what was the bankruptcy day in last year's report? >> it was 2029. >> in the course of one year, the medicare hi trust fund lost five years in solvency? is this something congress should be concerned about? >> i think it is definitely something that should be concerned about. as i note in my testimony, because trust fund balances or so low for several years going forward, the change in the insolvency date is quite possible. >> i can tell you that is certainly alarming to me that during the course of just one year, the medicare lost five years of solvency and is expected to go back route, as -- go bankrupt, as you stated, in 2024. it does not take a great deal of creativity to imagine a 2012 medicare trustees' report in which the hospital insurance trust fund insolvency date moves again by several years in either direction. are you sugge

mr., immensely. she is of course, irreplaceable. >> the world is an empty place without her. immoral service is being planned. >> 17 year-old brian buchanancal condition of danville. a freak accident at the beach over the weekend. this church group camping at the sunset state beach near watsonville. this tunnel that he was digging, collapse rob fladeboe. >>reporter: a bouquet of flowers marks the spot where brian buchanan was trapped under 15 minutes into the sand. using a trap plastic shovel buchanan and others managed to dig a pair of holes side by side. if there were is least 6 ft. deep, the rangers said and they tried to connect those two holes by digging a tunnel in between them. that is one the sand collapsed. trapping them beneath. an san jose where he remains in critical condition. the other teen was treated in a santa cruz and escaped serious injury. in watsonville, rob fladeboe, kron 4 news. >>catherine: officials are saying that never dig a hole that is larger than three deep. >> people build sand castles. and have already done that when there were children but when it is deep enough? it becomes a hazard and it could attra trap