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Protecting Medicare Part D From Government Intervention
It’s no secret that President Obama’s healthcare law continues to struggle despite the administration touting eight million sign-ups and 13 million people getting coverage during the first enrollment season. The administration is still struggling to get millennials to sign-up –…
What Social Security Will Look Like When You Retire
Social security isn’t going away, but what it will look like when you retire will depend on your age. Talk abounds that the social security coffers would be empty for people who are in their thirties or forties, but many…
Why Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
When Social Security’s trustees issued their recent report on the financial health of the program, they said the trust funds that support Social Security were on track to run out of money by 2033. Absent a change in the law,…
Medicare experiment rewards better health care at a lower cost
David Krueger regularly saw the waste and inefficiency in the health care system while working as an emergency physician. It might be as simple as patients who came to an emergency department because they could not get in to see…
Disability Awareness Can Get People Jobs
The secret is out about a not so well-known federal program from the Social Security Administration called the Ticket to Work. It is a program that helps Social Security recipients, who receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and/or Supplemental Security…
Leaders demand details on HealthCare.gov security problems
Republican committee leaders in the Senate and House called on the Obama administration on Wednesday to provide details on the security of HealthCare.gov after a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found systemic security weaknesses in the website, many…
New Anthem network makes business case for HMO-ACO hybrid
Anthem Blue Cross Vivity, the newly announced joint venture among WellPoint subsidiary Anthem and seven prominent Southern California providers, will blend both the past and future as its planned HMO-like structure also looks to implement elements found in today’s accountable…
U.S. Spending on Social Programs Could Imperil AAA Rating, Moody’s Warns
Moody’s Investors Service warned Wednesday that the U.S.’s top-notch credit grade could be pressured by escalating costs of social programs like Medicare or Social Security. The concerns aren’t at a level yet to affect the U.S.’s credit rating, at least…
Bogle tells Congress: Tighten retirement plans, delay Social Security
John Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, the $3 trillion-asset, Malvern-based No. 1 company in the mutual-fund business, is due in Washington Tuesday morning to lecture the U.S. Senate Finance Committee about what ought to be done to prevent retired Americans…
ACA open enrollment for 2015 causing anxiety for plans, providers
During the 2014 open enrollment for Obamacare coverage, Mary Denson, 21, a student at Columbia (Mo.) College, qualified for a federal premium subsidy that reduced her premium contribution for buying health insurance to less than $20 a month. But she…