Tag: health insurance
But expenditures remain high – primarily due to high health care costs, not program generosity. 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…
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…
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