Tag: senior healthcare

Doctor measuring blood pressure of a senior patient

Under the American Health Care Act, states will bear a growing burden of the health costs for an aging population. Most people are focused on the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) that is designed to repeal and replace Obamacare.  But retirement’s my game, so I’m interested in how changes…

Stethoscope on the dollars

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…