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Costs of Merging Social Security Retirement and Disability Funds

Charles Blahous

Merging the two funds “would be a significant departure from lawmakers’ previous promises,” would delay needed reforms, and “would add another layer of opacity,” as it would blur the distinction between taxes used for retirement benefits and those used for disability benefits.

e21, April 27, 2015
  • An Unfolding Fiscal Disaster

    Charles Blahous

    With many of the Obamacare pay-fors unlawfully pushed aside for political expediency, it’s anyone’s guess how much federal deficits will skyrocket as the law takes fuller effect.

    The Weekly Standard, July 14, 2014
  • The Unfolding Fiscal Disaster Behind Obamacare’s Enrollment Figures

    Charles Blahous

    A public trustee for Social Security and Medicare explains why Obamacare may well be “the greatest act of fiscal irresponsibility ever committed by federal legislators”—and why it’s getting even worse during implementation.

    Mercatus Center, April 17, 2014
  • The Fiscal Consequences of the Affordable Care Act

    Charles Blahous

    In the real world—as opposed to the peculiar world of federal score-keeping conventions—adding Obamacare to existing federal health-care entitlements like Medicare won’t lower the deficit but will explode it by hundreds of billions of dollars.

    e21, April 10, 2012
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    No Grounds for Claim that Obamacare Lowers Healthcare Costs

    Charles Blahous

    A public trustee for Social Security and Medicare examines the numbers and debunks the Obama administration's claim that Obamacare will lower the cost of health care.

    e21, November 25, 2013

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