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PolitiFact: Pawlenty Is Wrong In Claiming That Half Of Medicare Is Financed Through ‘Deficit Spending’ | According to Lisa Potetz of the Washington consulting group Health Policy Alternatives Inc, “not all government spending is deficit spending. In order for Pawlenty’s statement to be accurate, you’d have to assume only the deficit portion of the budget is used for Medicare. Using Pawlenty’s logic, she said, you could instead put Medicare funding first and then say all of defense spending is deficit spending.”