If you are married, and you or your spouse will soon be 66 years old, you might be able to increase your Social Security by thousands of dollars, but there’s a catch: A popular strategy known as “file and suspend” will be shut down for new participants after April 29.
Alan Skupp is an attorney who lives in Livingston, New Jersey. He and his wife run a market intelligence company.
Do you know what is the most severe fine, penalty or punitive tax imposed under Obamacare?
On more than one occasion, President Obama has said that the core idea behind Obamacare came from the Heritage Foundation and Politifact rates the claim as “mostly true.”
Obamacare is having a large effect on the market for low-wage labor. How do l know that? I did something most economists never do. I asked. I’m not alone. A lot of enterprising reporters have asked as well.
For most of his career as an editorial writer for The New York Times, Paul Krugman has been an unapologetic advocate of single-payer health insurance or “Medicare for all,” as he sometimes calls it.
Here’s a warning for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Before getting government more involved in controlling drug prices, take a close look at the mistakes that have already been made (and that are not being corrected) and the human suffering these mistakes are causing.
Inequality was the single most popular topic when economists gathered at their annual convention in San Francisco last month. But here is what everyone should know.
There are two things almost all health economists are in agreement about: (1) you cannot have successful reform of the health care system if you ignore the 150 million people who get health insurance through an employer and (2) the way we currently subsidize employer-provided health insurance is very wasteful and inefficient.
There are vast differences in the health of population groups in the United States. For example at the county level life expectancy for men ranges from a low of 65.9 years in Holmes County, Mississippi to a high of 81.1 years in Fairfax County, Virginia (a wealthy suburb of Washington, DC)—a difference of more than 15 years.