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Reed Calls for Reform as Social Security Indicates 6.5 Million Living Above Age of 112 when Only 14 Individuals in US Reach that Age
Today, Tom Reed announced the upcoming introduction of legislation which would help improve the integrity of government data and help prevent fraud, waste and abuse. The Standard Data Act would establish consistent requirements for data formatting and content used by…
Rand Paul: Advocates for the Disabled Should Help Brainstorm Ways to Cut Social Security Spending
Every election cycle, candidates who want to burnish their fiscal hawk credentials warn that entitlements are going to run out of money. This election cycle is different: The Social Security disability trust fund really is in danger of running low before it’s over.…
How much money do you need for retirement?
How much money do you need to save for retirement? While it’s a very simple question, the response is complicated, because there are so many variables that can shape the answer-sometimes dramatically. Additionally, there is specific retirement planning for all…
Medicare Savings Found in Promising Health Care Model
The chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently certified that an important pilot project that came out of the Affordable Care Act saved $400 million in its first two years. The Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO)…
Social Security Assists Seniors with Prescription Costs
May is Older Americans Month and Social Security is aiding seniors in prescription drug costs. Medicare Part D, which is a prescription drug program, is signed up through private insurance companies regulated by Medicare. Jack Myers, with Social Security, says…
The Pros and Cons of a Guaranteed National Income
There is a growing consensus across the political spectrum that our current welfare system is not working as intended. Although federal, state, and local governments spend nearly $1 trillion annually on at least 126 anti-poverty programs, we are doing little…
Review: How Washington Is Betraying America’s Young
President Obama’s promise “to rescue the economy” and “[lay] a new foundation for lasting economic growth” in 2009 has rung hollow for the millions of young Americans still struggling five years into the economic recovery. Millennials are the first modern…
The Awful Way Social Security Might Be “Saved”
This post The Awful Way Social Security Might Be “Saved” appeared first on Daily Reckoning. In 1990, the pollsters from Gallup started asking working Americans how likely it is Social Security will be there for them when they retire. By 2010, 60%…
Spring into stress-free retirement
April has arrived, and spring is here. As we say “goodbye” to winter weather hardships and “hello” to gardens budding with vibrant color, we welcome the season by celebrating Stress Awareness Month. Did you know that stress, also called the “silent…
Expanded Hospice Improved Care But Raised Medicare Costs
A large study examined the impact of growth in Medicare’s hospice benefit among nursing home residents between 2004 and 2009 and found improvement in indicators of care quality, such as less reliance on intensive care and feeding tubes, but that…