Tag: Medicare
The program has lower spending growth than private insurance. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is proposing a big change to Medicare as part of the broad-ranging Better Way plan. Under the current Medicare program, the government provides health insurance for people 65 and over and adults with disabilities. Under the Better Way plan, t…
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…
