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TheCoelacanthtoday at 4:05 PM0 repliesview on HN

Fortunately insolvency in this scenario mean that they will only be able to afford to pay around 3/4 of promised benefits.

Closing that budget gap is a problem that will need to be dealt with, but it's not impossible to fix and it's a fairly long way away. There are a lot of proposals going around for how to fix it and those will become more politically palatable as it gets closer.