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Medicare inflation outpaces Social Security COLA
Medicare inflation has outpaced Social Security COLA increase in all but a few years in in the last two decades. Is it time for a new way of calculating COLA? As this Motley Fool article by Sean Williams points out, a more senior friendly CPI index is one consideration, but the issue is more complex than just that. Click here to read more about several ways COLA might be calculated, and also how Medicare inflation has nearly always outpaced COLA.
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