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  • Busting the Medicare Myths

    I’ll be presenting to the Michigan Intergenerational Network again Wednesday, November 13.  This time the talk is about Busting the Medicare Myths. I’ll be showing how a lot of the rhetoric about the future of Medicare and the Federal budget deficit is fear-mongering intended to cut benefits for seniors. The reality is more complex and…

  • Reprise: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?

    Today, I reprised my presentation from last July to the Michigan Intergenerational Network.  The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?  An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. This time the setting and audience was a guest lecture to the Madonna University Gerontology Dept.’s Policy The…

  • Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?

    I gave a presentation today to the Michigan Intergenerational Network.  The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?  An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget.  The Powerpoint file,  MIN-IntergenerationalTransferPrograms-30jul2013 is available here.  An overview of the talk below the fold: