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Can Congress Find a Cure for Medicare’s Growing Troubles?
The new Congress should build on the success of the growing Medicare Advantage system. This can be done by repealing its existing, flawed payment system and replacing it with a system of free-market, competitive bidding outside of Medicare’s bureaucratic pricing.…
What Tuesday’s elections mean for healthcare
The outcome of Tuesday’s elections could have profound implications for healthcare policy. Most significantly, the outcome of the fight for control of the Senate will shape the tenor and content of the healthcare debate in Washington in the coming months…
Senate Mid-term Elections Shaping Up to Be a ‘Nail-Biter,’ says AMAC
The mid-term Senate elections – once considered a sure thing for Republican incumbents and contenders – are shaping up to be a “nail-biting” event, according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens. “It has looked like…
6 Ways to Ensure You’ll Have Enough Money in Retirement
If you want to have a cozy retirement, your best bet is to find a job that offers a traditional pension. Have you heard of pensions? They’re a near mythical job perk in which your company continues to pay you…
See What 10 Powerful Women Finance Experts Carry in Their Wallets
Suze Orman, Deirdre Bolton, Cameron Huddleston, Terry Savage, Mandi Woodruff, Karlene Sinclair-Robinson, Kelli Grant, Gerri Detweiler and Sharon Epperson are all experts when it comes to investments, the markets and personal finance. As editors, writers and contributors to some of…
No More Errands; Stay Home for the Holidays
Let’s face it, the last thing you’re going to want to do during this holiday season is another errand. You’ve hung the lights, plugged them in, and were frustrated when you realized you needed to replace one little bulb to…
Will the Supreme Court accept the Obamacare subsidy challenge today?
The U.S. Supreme Court justices are scheduled on Friday to discuss whether to accept a case with the potential to severely disrupt health coverage for millions of Americans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. If they take the case, it could…
With Disability Benefits Running on Fumes, What to Do?
Few Americans know that the tax they pay to finance Social Security gets split into two unequal parts. The larger part goes to a trust fund that supports pensions for retirees and survivors. The smaller part goes into another trust…
How you would fix Social Security: Raise the retirement age
About a month ago, the Post invited readers to chime in on what they thought were the best ways to fix Social Security. With the help of the Center for Retirement Research, we presented an array of 12 solutions commonly suggested for the…
How a Divided Senate Could Threaten Social Security
American politics is more diverse, more nuanced and more interesting than most media and political elites choose to note. This country elects Libertarians and Greens and Socialists and independents, along with Democrats and Republicans. And 2014 could produce results that…