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How a Conservative Congress Could Make a Huge Difference in Next Two Years
If Republicans should capture the Senate and retain their majority in the House of Representatives, can they move America toward greater freedom, opportunity and prosperity in the next two years? Or, as some cynics claim, will a conservative Congress and…
Longer lifespans hit pensions
With new mortality tables approved and issued the last week of October, the first in nearly 15 years, the Society of Actuaries has increased projected lifespan. Men aged 65 are expected to live to 86.6 years on average, up from 84.6…
More Scrutiny Coming For Medicare Advantage, Obamacare
Federal officials are planning a wide range of audits into billing and government spending on managed health care in the new fiscal year, ranging from private Medicare Advantage groups that treat millions of elderly to health plans rapidly expanding under…
4 Questions to Ask Before Retirement
You’ve spent your whole life saving so that during retirement, you can lounge on a beach, play golf or travel to faraway lands. Figuring out how to spend your retirement nest egg can be stressful for most people though. Having…
Why you shouldn’t use retirement savings to pay off debt
For many workers, years spent building up retirement savings can fall apart at what would typically be a milestone worth celebrating: the start of a new job. The ability to cash out a retirement account comes with consequences. You’ll have to pay taxes on the money…
Medicare weighs paying for end-of-life counseling
Medicare said Friday it will consider paying doctors to counsel patients about their options for end-of-life care, the same idea that spurred accusations of “death panels” and fanned a political furor around President Barack Obama’s healthcare law five years ago.The announcement came in…
Justices may still hear Obamacare subsidy case
Healthcare stakeholders and the public likely will have to wait at least another week—if not longer—to find out whether the U.S. Supreme Court will hear King v. Burwell, a case with the potential to severely disrupt implementation of the Patient Protection and…
SOCIAL SECURITY: Serving Veterans on Veterans Day And Always
Every day — but particularly on Veterans Day — Social Security salutes those who have put their lives on the line for our freedom. Members of the United States armed forces receive expedited processing of their Social Security disability applications. The…
Republican lawmakers, be careful what you wish for
Some Republican governors and U.S. senators are going to have a major Obamacare dilemma on their hands if they wake up Wednesday morning and find that their party controls Congress. Congressional Republicans repeatedly have vowed to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
We Have Become Bad Voters. How We Can Change.
By regularly promising the impossible, political candidates give the dangerous impression that salvation is only one bill, one policy solution away. It breeds impatience, impetuosity and ecstatic hopes in citizens. And it can make us bad voters. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton…