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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…
The Untapped Talent Pool of People With Disabilities
Recently, Dana Marlowe’s technology consultancy was managing a software project at a Fortune 500 company, when the client told her he was so impressed with her project manager that he wanted to hire him on the spot. That’s not surprising in a…
If Prevention Is Good for People — Why Not Medicare? | Commentary
Over the last decade, the discussion about reforming our health care system has focused on changing from a “sick” care to a “well” care system — or in other words being less reactive and more preventive in our approach to…
Social Security fix divides Congress
If you want to see the deep divisions in Washington on how to salvage Social Security, look no further than Ohio’s two senators: Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican Rob Portman. If Brown had his way, payroll taxes would be raised on…
As disability awards grow, so do concerns with veracity of PTSD claims
The 49-year-old veteran explained that he suffered from paranoia in crowds, nightmares and unrelenting flashbacks from the Iraq war. He said he needed his handgun to feel secure and worried that he would shoot somebody. The symptoms were textbook post-traumatic stress…
Medicare: The next frontier
Retirement health care costs are on the rise, yet some financial advisers and their clients still have not begun to integrate a major factor of those expenses — Medicare — into their plans. And those oversights can be costly. Drew…
House Committee on Ways and Means Holds Hearing to Discuss Social Security
On Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 the House Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing titled “What Workers Need to Know about Social Security as They Plan for their Retirement”. Chairman Sam Johnson (TX) began the hearing by noting that…