Tag: Medicaid

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The brief’s key findings are: Medicaid covers not only the low-income elderly but also those with higher incomes who become impoverished by health costs, such as nursing home care. The percentage of high-income single retirees receiving Medicaid rises with age – from near zero for those in their 70s to 20 percent for those in…

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If we don’t want to cut programs, then we need big tax increases The U.S. fiscal challenge is pretty straightforward.  Revenues in 2012 equal 16 percent of our nation’s output and spending (excluding interest) is 22 percent.  Deficit spending makes sense in a weak economy, but even once the economy recovers revenues will fall short…