Archive: Matthew S. Rutledge
The brief’s key findings are: Even with Medicare coverage and ignoring long term care, retirees face sizable out-of-pocket costs for premiums, copays, and uncovered services. One way to gauge this burden is to look at how much these medical costs eat into their Social Security benefits and other income. After subtracting these costs, the typica…
Introduction At any given time, a large pool of people ages 55-70 – over 15 million today – indicate they are retired. With the U.S. economy currently facing a labor shortage, the potential return of these retirees to the workforce is an important question. On the one hand, it seems likely that many retired workers…
