Saving, Social Security, and the ideal world clash
Scott Burns argues that saving alone cannot secure retirement and defends Social Security against reforms. He warns that replacing benefits with personal savings risks a spending cliff, higher taxes, and broader economic harm, urging preservation of $11.6 trillion in benefits. AssetBuilder’s Burns advocates real-world fixes over ideal promises.
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Health care charges vary with Medicare payment gap study
A Reuters report notes US doctors often bill uninsured and out of network patients far more than Medicare accepts. Anesthesiologists radiologists and emergency physicians show the largest excess charges, with half of anesthesiologists around six times Medicare, interventional radiologists about 4.5 times, and emergency physicians about four times. The study analyzed data from 429,273 doctors across 54 specialties and found regional variation in excess charges.
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Ge Bai
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Baltimore
Bai
Medicare
Gerard Anderson
Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
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