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HOW TO PAY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY

…of an adequate retirement benefit for their own longer life expectancy. As the ad says, this is “priceless.” There might be some minor “inequity” in the “rate of return” from…

No crisis in sight

…pay for the six extra years of life expectancy those future tax payers will have compared to us. The 20 dollar raise will preserve their benefits at current replacement value…

Senator Obama chooses Jason Furman econ advisor

…nation, but citizens in 28 other countries have a higher life expectancy and 33 other nations have lower infant mortality rates. If this were a government-run health care system, the…

The Real Crisis

life expectancy to infant mortality. I plan on presenting several different types of data this week about the quality of health care in the US, including different measures of care…