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Medicare Turns 58!
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On Sunday, we will celebrate Medicare’s 58th Anniversary! That’s 58 years of providing health insurance to tens of millions of retired Americans and helping to keep older Americans out of poverty.
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But despite the fact that Medicare continues to be enormously successful and popular, this program is being offered up as a sacrifice on the altar of deficit reduction and paying for other fiscal priorities, including massive tax breaks for the wealthy.
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With your support, the National Committee is fighting to stop harmful proposals now under consideration that would raise the Medicare eligibility age, expand the privatization of traditional Medicare and roll back critical drug pricing reforms that are helping seniors afford their lifesaving medications.
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Whether you’re retired or approaching retirement, our team of experts in the field of Social Security policy is available to answer your questions about benefits.
You can either search our archives for valuable advice on a broad range of concerns or submit your question here.
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This week’s question is: I have been of the belief that Social Security benefits are determined by taking the average income of all the years of employment. I recently heard that it is the average of the highest thirty-five years of employment. Which is correct?
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Click here to read the answer.
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Medicare Benefits
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Learn more about the Medicare program and the policies the National Committee supports that would strengthen your earned benefits.
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Dan Adcock, Director of Government Relations and Policy at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, told ThinkAdvisor in an email that the group supports “provisions in the bill that would extend Social Security and Medicare Part A trust fund solvency by having the wealthy pay their fair share into both programs.”
(July 12, 2023, Think Advisor, Melanie Waddell)
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“By re-introducing his revised Social Security 2100 Act, Congressman John Larson once again defies the media narrative that ‘no one in Washington has the courage’ to address the program’s future,” says Max Richtman, President and CEO of the Washington, DC-based National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
(July 17, 2023, Rhode Island News, Herb Weiss)
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A group of Republican lawmakers aims to balance the federal budget and slash government spending by targeting programs like Social Security — and some seniors could see a major reduction in lifetime benefits if the plan makes it into law.
(July 23, 2023, YAHOO!, Vance Cariaga)
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse touted his bill requiring wages above $400,000 to be taxed for Social Security. “A tech exec making $1 million effectively stops paying into the program in February, while a schoolteacher contributes their share all year,” Whitehouse said. (July 14, 2023, CNBC, Lorie Konish)
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Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday sued the Biden administration over Medicare’s new powers to slash drug prices, making it the third pharmaceutical company to challenge the controversial provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.
(July 18, 2023, CNBC, Annika Kim Constantino)
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