ELF News Archives

August 2003

- Over the Cliff -

Social Security is about to plunge, but retirement benefits don't have to.
Cato Institute 08/27

- Social Security Ready for a Rocker -

"As Social Security turns 68 years old, it is time to recognize that a program designed for the 1930s is no longer adequate for the 21st Century.
Cato Institute 08/14

- Social Security: An Economics Perspective -

The Social Security system, including old-age and survivors insurance, disability insurance, and hospital insurance (Medicare), poses a staggering liability in the years ahead.
Library of Economics and Liberty 08/11

- Health savings accounts tied to prescription drugs -

House Republicans say a key issue to their support of the final Medicare prescription-drug bill is the creation of health savings accounts for individuals.
Washington Times 08/08

- Nursing-home costs soar -

Nursing-home costs in the Richmond area rose nearly 26 percent last year to an average of $176.60 a day, dramatically eclipsing the national 8 percent rate increase, a national study finds.
Richmond Times-Dispatch 08/07

Popular Destinations for Seniors

A broad reshuffling of the top retirement destinations means that a growing number of older people are moving to the Southwest and a swath of mild-weather Atlantic Coast states that include Virginia and Delaware. Florida still gained far more new elderly residents than any other state, but it drew fewer in the late 1990s than in the late 1980s. So did Oregon and Washington state, which were 1980s hot spots.
Washington Post 08/06



- Frantic search is on for memory-loss cures -

Worried baby boomers can take heart in new evidence that mental stimulation may help stave off Alzheimer's disease, though there still is no cure.
USA Today 08/06

- Public pensions far short -

State taxpayers are having to spend billions of dollars to prop up public pension plans hit hard by stock market losses, which squeezes state budgets at a time when tax collections are growing slowly.
USA Today 08/04

- Social Security ambuscade -

While forcing an expensive new prescription-drug entitlement into the Senate Medicare bill, Mr. Kennedy also conceded just enough Medicare "reform" to give the appearance Medicare was eventually going to be transformed into a market-based insurance program driven by the private choices of Medicare recipients. The Bush administration took the bait.
Washington Times 08/01

- The Bear's Lair: How to pay medical costs -

As the prescription drugs bill heads into a conference between House and Senate, it is already clear that it will add hugely to the Federal deficit, worsen drugs coverage for many senior citizens already adequately covered, and further socialize U.S. medicine.
Washington Times 08/01


USA Today 07/01

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