The trust funds for both programs are on pace to run dry by 2033, triggering an automatic 23 percent cut in seniors’ Social ...

The trustees say the latest findings show the urgency of needed changes to the programs, which have faced dire financial ...

As a general rule, Medicare eligibility does begin at 65. However, disabled people under age 65 are a growing segment of the ...

The date the programs will not be able to fully pay benefits has moved up to three years sooner than last year's estimate, ...

The go-broke date — or the date at which the programs will no longer have enough funds to pay full benefits — was pushed up ...

If you don't understand some of these things, you could end up paying a whole lot more for health care. Medicare is a federal ...

That’s when the trust funds that underpin Social Security and Medicare are due to run low, which will mean that benefits get ...

It is a blueprint for the next chapter of Medicare, one where the system works for people, not the other way around. The goal isn’t just to help older adults live longer; it’s to give them ...

America's aging population, coinciding with falling birth rates, has become a growing concern and reflects the wider anxieties felt in the country.

Structural Racism In Early US Health Care Policy. Since the Jim Crow era (1875–1968), racism has implicitly and explicitly been an integral part of the US government’s structuring and ...