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A Medicare scam that just kept rolling
The government has paid billions to buy power wheelchairs. It has no idea how many of the claims are bogus. In the little office where they ran the scam, a cellphone would ring on Sonia Bonilla’s desk. That was the…
Retiring On Social Security Alone
No doubt you’ve heard politicians and pundits debating the state of social security, and throwing out all kinds of numbers. But the bottom line for retirees has always been simple: Will I get enough to live on? Barbara Woodruff, of…
Payroll-Tax Reallocation Would Rob Social Security and Prevent Necessary Disability Insurance Reforms
Although Social Security’s 75-year shortfall is nearly 10 times as large as that of the Disability Insurance (DI) program, the DI Trust Fund is projected to be exhausted much sooner. According to the Social Security trustees’ 2014 projections, the Social…
Social Security: The Biggest Decision You’ll Ever Make
When to pull the trigger on Social Security benefits is a decision worth big money. Steve Gorin is a lucky man. He says he’s very fortunate to work in a profession that allows him to retire later than most Americans. The 67-year-old…
Medicare Cuts End Personal Touch of ‘Mom and Pop’ Business Serving Seniors
For Robert and Susan Blair, it was time for an exit strategy. The couple had been in the business of home health care for three decades, and retirement looked more and more attractive. The Blairs’ history of owning home health care agencies began…
Too Many Impoverished Elderly Overlook Government Help
Millions of senior citizens are living in poverty without financial assistance from the federal government that they are eligible to claim. And according to research, most of them are single women. The question is, why? Supplemental Security Insurance, or SSI, is…
Health law’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid has its skeptics about innovation
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to mend what President Obama called a broken health-care system, but its best-known programs — online insurance and expanded Medicaid for the poor — affect a relatively small portion of Americans. A federal office you’ve…
Restoring Booming Economic Growth Through Populist, Pro-Growth, Win Win, Entitlement Reform
The greatest fallacy in economic policy today is the failure to see the vast, pro-growth opportunities offered by fundamental, structural entitlement reform. Today’s entitlement programs broadly discourage capital formation and investment, as well as labor force participation. Structural entitlement reforms…
How to save a million bucks for retirement
Some people have a million dollars or more saved for retirement, but most people have far less. USA TODAY asked Jeanne Thompson, a vice president at Fidelity Investments, for the best ways to boost retirement savings. She indicated that last…
Brady releases draft bill to protect Medicare
Today, House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the Protecting Integrity in Medicare Act of 2014 (PIMA), a discussion draft aimed at combating fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare program so that it can…