Tag: health insurance

Business briefcase, stethoscope and financial market charts

This year I, with my sidekick Michael Wicklein, took a more-careful-than-usual look at the Trustees Report for the Medicare program. After all, Medicare – like Social Security – relies on payroll tax revenues, so it’s useful to understand the competing needs.  Traditional Medicare is composed of two programs.  The first – Part A, Hospital Insuranc…

two white direction signs with arrows and the words medicare and medicaid

The Affordable Care Act has helped significant numbers of people with disabilities pay for the medical care their serious conditions require by adding Medicaid as a second layer of insurance to their standard Medicare coverage. Dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid increased from 38 percent of people receiving disability benefits to between 42 percent and…