What worries Americans most about their prospects for achieving a secure retirement? The cost of health care. Americans are less confident that they’ll have enough money to pay for medical and long-term care expenses in retirement than they are about their ability to cover basic expenses, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s recently released [...] [read full article…]
Here’s something I never thought I’d do: publish an essay in a volume alongside Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Jimmy Carter. But the editors at Sellers Publishers invited me about a year ago to contribute to a volume of essays called 65 Things to Do When You Retire, 65 Notable Achievers on How to Make [...] [read full article…]
Applications for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) have increased in recent years. What does this increase imply for the program overall, and particularly for its funding over the long term? I moderated a panel discussion on the future of SSDI today, sponsored by the National Academy of Social Insurance. The forum, held at the Cannon [...] [read full article…]
Americans don’t like the individual mandate – the requirement that most of us buy health insurance under the Obama Administration’s health reform law. Most Americans also don’t like paying taxes, but they are the price we pay to live in a civil society. So, setting aside the Constitutional questions being argued before the Supreme Court this [...] [read full article…]
The Republican Party doubled down on privatizing Medicare with the 2012 budget plan released this week by Republican Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin). It’s their latest pitch for a reform that would let seniors shop for coverage in an insurance exchange marketplace in lieu of traditional Medicare. The Ryan plan has little chance of passage this year, [...] [read full article…]
