Tag: medicare trust fund
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…
Medicare premiums depend on interaction with Social Security COLA. The Social Security Administration recently announced that, in 2017, beneficiaries will receive a cost-of-living adjustment of 0.3 percent. But about 70 percent of beneficiaries will not see any increase in their Social Security benefits because every dollar of the increase will go to pay for…
