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7 Shocking Facts About the Financial Security of Americans
Our nation’s Social Security system is said to be woefully underfinanced, but if you think Americans are any better off with their private savings, think again. Forty percent of individuals in the U.S. said they could not or probably could not…
Social Security Administration Updates Transgender Policy
After a 92-year-old WWII vet took on the federal agency, the Social Security Administration has issued updated guidelines designed to eliminate a number of challenges trans individuals face when attempting to obtain benefits. Read more… Notice: The “Read more…”…
Medical Assn Won’t Stop Medicare Doc Data Release
The nation’s largest doctors’ group said Monday it won’t try to block Medicare’s release of billing records for 880,000 physicians, although it continues to oppose the government’s recent decision to open up the massive data trove. An official of the American…
Why You Could Die Broke, Lonely and Miserable
While health insurance is controversial, the product is not broken. Long-term care insurance is broken. Long-term care insurance works something like Social Security. Young workers pay; old workers collect. But as the costs of long-term care have skyrocketed, and as America has continued to age, the…
Democrats and Seniors…Keep the Medicare Advantage Program?
“Democrats have to perform better with seniors than they did in 2010. They got shellacked with seniors in 2010. I don’t think the goal here is to win, but I definitely think the goal is to narrow the gap,” he…
The Smart Way to Tap Investment Accounts in Retirement
If you are like many Americans, you have a variety of investment and retirement accounts. When it comes time to live on that money, how do you decide which ones to tap first? The goal is to maximize your ability to…
America, the Land of Workarounds
Once upon a time, Americans took on great challenges and met them: the transcontinental railroad and the Panama Canal. Universal high school and Social Security. The conquest of polio and the Interstate Highway System. During the four years between Pearl Harbor…
Politicians ignore interests of students, take advantage of younger generation
As candidates campaign for the impending midterm elections, don’t expect your future to be taken into consideration by those asking for your vote. Don’t expect them to run on policies that would save Social Security for our generation, or lower…
For Dems, a problem with seniors
Democrats are facing a senior problem that could get even worse this year. The party has traditionally had trouble with older voters, losing the group aged 65 and over by 21 points in 2010 — when Republicans picked up 63 seats…
Social Security Column for April 6
The World Health Organization held the first World Health Assembly in 1948, and, beginning in 1950, every year on April 7 the world comes together to observe World Health Day. Each year, World Health Day focuses on a particular subject…