Tag: Medicare
The headlines from the 2023 Medicare Trustees Report were that the Hospital Insurance (HI) program faces a long-term deficit and will deplete its trust fund reserves in 2031 and that the rest of the Medicare program will require increasing amounts of general revenues. While true, the outlook for program costs is considerably more favorable than…
With the prospect that Congress may fail to raise the debt ceiling and the possibility that Social Security benefits may not be paid on a timely basis, one obvious question is whether it matters if people get their check a few days, a week, or a couple of weeks late. From my reading of t…
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