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Every major newspaper and online news service carried that same headline, perhaps all written by the same copy desk: "Medicare And Social Security Face Insolvency." Cynics said that the announcement by the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees will be used as a powerful argument to raise taxes to replenish the funds. Skeptics said that the data is based on forecasts which could change radically over the next several years. Anyone who doubts the projections will say that they are the work of actuaries who practice an art as dark as voodoo...
...edition of the "Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs" is a swamp of data which is only useful it if it turns out to be correct. There is no evidence that most of the assumptions are accurate any more than there is proof that the new federal budget and its forecast deficits are accurate. The White House recently changed its deficit projection for the next fiscal year by $89 billion. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...report from the Trustees blames the economy for the fact that the Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have exhausted its reserves in 2017 and that the Social Security trust fund will be in the same position in 2037. The report for the two funds makes an attempt to project income and expenses for the funds from 2009 to 2018. While it is improbable that the numbers are correct, a forecast that makes a prediction for a period of a decade could be, if well argued, plausible. But, to accept the results of the report, anyone looking...
...College will engage students over the coming months in discussions on how best to use the nearly 10,000 square feet made available by this move to meet student activities and social space needs...
...RefWorks, finding multimedia resources in the libraries, and creating research strategies for a paper. The College will engage students over the coming months in discussions on how best to use the nearly 10,000 square feet made available by this move to meet student activities and social space needs...