SOCIAL SECURITY: IT’S JUST MATH
…Social Security plus Medicare, of $ 2737 Billion. Close enough, if you don’t mind rounding up by 10%. It is not honest to start out by talking about Social Security,…
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More on the Threat to Social Security and Medicare from the so-called "Fiscal Cliff"
…aimed in particular at the earned benefit and safety net programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. B. A Grand Bargain or a Devil’s Bargain–How the Heck Did Social Security…
Tables Tell Tales: Did the Social Security Surplus Vanish in Feb 2009?
…his post Slowdown Slashes Social Security Surplus. Biggs introduces us to a new tool from Social Security’s office of the Chief Actuary which gives us results by month Financial Data…
Current Law Social Security: "Scheduled" vs "Payable" Benefits
…equally a rhetorical (in the classical definition) baseline. Under current Social Security law future benefits are set by a formula. For a given individual this formula starts from income history…
A President Who’ll Cut Social Security — And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much
Richard Eskow points us to a trend with liberals media types and Social Security: A President Who’ll Cut Social Security — And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much The spectacle…
Robert Barro Anticipates a NonArgument from David Altig (Soc. Sec.) – and then makes one
…will react to any rearrangement of the social security system’s portfolio in a way that completely neutralizes the effect of the portfolio change. For example, if the social security system…
Soc Sec XIX: Narratology of ‘Crisis’
I have said a number of times in posts and comments here that the numbers on Social Security are all extremely important, because paradoxically little of the debate about ‘crisis’…
Rep Jayapal and Sen Sanders’ Have Introduced Medicare for All Bills: Part 1
…title in the Social Security Act that created Medicare] as of the date of the enactment of this Act shall apply to benefits under this Act, including any reform activities…
Boskin on Social Security: Abuse of Utility Theory
Michael Boskin makes his case for Bush’s Social Security deform, while Max Sawicky provides the critique. Max briefly touched on two aspects of Michael’s paper that relate to utility theory….
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…health plan, make public universities free, expand Social Security, spend big on infrastructure, create universal child-care and pre-K programs, provide federal jobs for young people and bail out struggling pension…