Tag: baby boomer
Medicare accounts for more than 10 percent of federal spending. Medicaid, which covers 90 million low-income workers and disabled people, has the largest enrollment of any government insurance program. The conventional wisdom on these major programs is that Medicaid, which pays less for physicians’ services, provides lower-quality medical care than Medicare. But research is scant…
In the late 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. Social Security Administration subsidized college expenses for young adults with deceased, disabled or retired parents who were receiving dependent benefits. The other requirements were that they were full-time students and remained single while they were in school. The baby boomers who participated in that program, which ended…
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