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Understanding the Health Care Dilemma and its Potential Impact on Your Retirement
The issue of universal health care is a major discussion point in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, but medai reports indicate that many Americans do not have a good understanding of the implications on them individually. In examining…
Doctors’ House Calls Saving Money For Medicare
(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News) Looking for ways to save money and improve care, Medicare officials are returning to an old-fashioned idea: house calls. But the experiment, called Independence at Home, is more than a nostalgic throwback to…
Obama’s Latest Executive Overreach Is in Medicare
(By Robert Moffitt for The Daily Signal) The Obama administration has proposed regulatory changes in payment for Medicare Part B drugs. They’re looking to impose a broad, multi-year change through a demonstration project. Medicare demonstrations routinely test payment or delivery…
The Future of Expenses in Retirement
Social Security benefits may not be able to keep up with the costs of health care over the next two decades. Today’s Americans are already undersaving for their retirement and Social Security is even now struggling to keep some afloat…
Entrepreneurs in Retirement
Baby Boomers continue to live up to their name and are creating a boom in businesses that cater to the retired population. In the past this may have meant the medical field, but today it refers to everything leisurely. Boomers…
Check out “Independence at Home”–A CMS Test Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is testing a program that “will work with medical practices to test the effectiveness of delivering comprehensive primary care services at home and if doing so improves care for Medicare beneficiaries with…
Debating the Chained CPI Issue for COLA
Forbes staff writer Janet Novack takes a look at the implications of the much-discussed “chained CPI” approach to containing future Social Security benefits. Read the article here… Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of…
A Discussion on Social Security’s Future
Social Security experts Larry Kotlikoff and Phil Moeller have an open discussion on the future of Social Security and the steps that workers–especially younger workers–should consider in dealing with the road ahead. Watch the brief video segment here… Notice:…
Largest Demographic in Voting
Baby Boomers now share the top spot of most eligible voters with the Millennials. The Boomers peaked in the 2004 elections at 72.9 million eligible voters and have since fallen to 69.7 million and will continue to decline. Millennials caught…
Boomers Keeping Music Alive
Each generation usually sees a shift in what kind of music is most popular and how it is listened to. Millennials have fallen flat, however, and Baby Boomers refuse to leave the scene. Streaming has not caught on in the…