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Saving: Medicare Is Worth More Than Social Security For Young Workers
By the time today’s young workers retire, Medicare will spend more on them than they get from Social Security and the two programs combined will replace more than 100 percent of their pre-retirement wages.
John Goodman, Peter Ferrara Join Lineup at FreedomFest in Las Vegas
Dr. John Goodman and Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara will join the scheduled lineup of speakers at FreedomFest, convening this week in Las Vegas.
Goodman at Health Affairs: There are Six ObamaCare Problems That Aren’t Going Away
No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the subsidies in 34 states, there are other problems with the law that will require the president and the Congress to act. Among these are a mandate to buy a product whose cost is likely to grow twice as fast as your income.
New Book: Can We Privatize The Welfare State?
A new book by Goodman Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara argues that individual responsibility and the marketplace can solve problems much better than government transfer programs.
John Goodman Launches First-of-its-kind Virtual Think Tank
A well-known figure in the think tank world says he is going virtual. “We will have a think tank that will give us maximum leverage for money, people and ideas,” says John Goodman, who founded and led the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis for 31 years.
New Book: Up To 98 Percent Of Retirees Are Getting Less Than They Should Be Getting From Social Security
If you are over 70 year of age, odds are your Social Security check is not as large as it could have been. But if you are younger than 70, there is still time to do what most Americans don’t do: get the maximum benefit the law allows.
Goodman And Reinhardt Debate Obamacare At Forbes
Two of the nation’s leading health care economists are squaring off in the blogosphere.
Washington Post: Goodman is the Real Father of Health Savings Accounts
There are now more than 30 million people managing some of their own health dollars in spend-it-or-save-it accounts. About half of those are Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and about half are Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs).
Social Security: An Unhappy 80th Birthday
We have promised more than we expect to take in: Looking indefinitely into the future, Social Security has a $28.5 trillion unfunded liability, according to the latest Trustees report.