Tag: health
The brief’s key findings are: The headline from the 2018 Trustees Report was an earlier depletion date for the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund, suggesting Medicare faces growing trouble. However, the trust fund reserves are small compared to HI expenditures, and the HI component only accounts for about a third of the Medicare system. In…
Abstract Older Americans have been retiring later for a number of reasons, including jobs that are becoming less physically demanding, the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions, and changes in Social Security’s incentives. What are the implications of working longer for workers’ mortality and health? Answering this question is complicated, because work and…
