Charles Blahous
Recent Stories By Charles Blahous:
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Here’s Why Obama’s Medicaid Expansion Is Costing So Much MoreAugust 2, 2016
The implementation of major legislation such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) often results in fiscal outcomes that differ significantly from prior projections. Whenever this happens it leads to many...
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A New ‘Save SSDI Plan Could Derail Social SecurityApril 30, 2015
The urgent financing crisis facing Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) is giving rise to suggestions that the DI Trust Fund be merged with Social Security’s larger Old-Age and Survivors...
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To Beat the Coming Disability Insurance Disaster, Stay HealthyJanuary 15, 2015
For years Social Security’s trustees (of which I am one) have warned that lawmakers must act to address the troubled finances of the program’s disability insurance (DI) trust fund. Congress has...
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Why the Medicare Cost Problem Is Still UnsolvedSeptember 18, 2014
On August 28 The New York Times published a provocative article entitled “Medicare: Not Such a Budget Buster Anymore.” Its thesis was that Medicare no longer poses the budgetary threat it was...