Andrew G. Biggs | The Hill
Social Security is underfunded by more than $10 trillion, yet Congress has done nothing for 30 years. The United States needs to increase its retirement savings, but it’s not ordinary Americans who are at fault. It’s American politicians, who are better on promising benefits than funding them.
Charles Blahous, E21
A primary argument made for passing the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or so-called “Obamacare”) was that only such an expansion of the federal role in healthcare could successfully slow the growth of national health costs and thereby avert fiscal disaster. During the first few years after the law’s enactment, many of its supporters contended it was already accomplishing this, which other analysts strongly disputed. But more recently a quiet consensus has overtaken the former controversy. Read more here....