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Health Care: Working the Refs, Attacking the Refs and Hiring the Refs
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleAs if Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts wasn’t a big enough blow to the Obama Administration’s hopes for overhauling the health care...
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CMS Medicare Actuary Disavows the Medicare Trustees’ Report
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article“(T)he financial projections shown in this report for Medicare do not represent a reasonable expectation for actual program operations in either...
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Click here for the House Budget Committee PDF of this testimony.Testimony Presented to the House Budget Committee:“Fulfilling the Mission of Health and Retirement Security”James C. CaprettaMarch 17,...
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Congress Daily reports that "Democrats on Wednesday sought to shoot down concerns about the impact on Social Security of a payroll-tax extension. They released a letter from Social Security’s chief...
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Are We Underestimating the Social Security Shortfall?
Last month the New York Times printed an op-ed piece (“Social Security: It’s Worse than You Think”) by professors Gary King of Harvard and Samir Soneji of Dartmouth. Their piece asserted that the...
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The Social Security Trustees’ Respectable Projection Record (Part 1)
Teaser: The Social Security annual trustees' report has become increasingly telling of the program's financial condition. This piece reviews some of the critiques pertaining to the trustees' projection...
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The Social Security Trustees’ Projection Process: Imperfect but Indispensable...
Teaser: The Social Security trustees' projection process has faced much scrutiny. In his second article of a two-part series, Blahous summarizes the criticisms of this process and ultimately draws...
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