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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…
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…
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 29 th , 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…
Senior citizens get good news
Senior citizens who want Congress to keep its hands off their Social Security and Medicare benefits were given some powerful ammunition this week from the trustees who oversee both programs. The long-term future of both still isn’t good, but immediate…
Social Security is in crisis
The 2014 Social Security Trustees report showed a continuation of the current trend toward insolvency of both of its trust funds. As in the previous two years, the Trustees estimate that Social Security’s combined retirement and disability trust funds will…
Soaring Disability Rolls Boost Government Dependency
As part of the Obama administration’s “give away the store” mentality, encouraging the masses to sign up for government programs at taxpayers’ expense, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Monday urged Congress to provide more resources for the exploding number of…
AMAC Symposium Speaker Calls for Better Overall Patient Welfare Focus
Marc O’Connor, Curant Health Chief Operating Officer, told the AMAC Health Care Symposium audience last month in Washington that most health care providers were more concerned with payment for their services or products than for the welfare of patients. Contrary…
A Model for Providing Quality Health Care While Reducing Costs
Dr. Lee Gross, Co-Founder and Sr. Vice President of Epiphany Health, presented a detailed plan to provide quality health care at reduced costs at last month’s AMAC National Health Care Symposium in Washington. In his Symposium remarks, Dr. Gross analyzed…
AMAC Symposium Speaker Stresses Health Care System Needs Fixing
According to Kathryn Serkes, one of the featured speakers at the 2014 National Health Care Symposium last month, “major health care system reforms are needed” but rather than put reforms into effect, the ACA has created a greater need for…