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Social Security COLA Is Forecast Around 3%

More than 74 million Americans can expect a healthy inflation adjustment to their Social Security benefits next year — just not as large as this year’s historic 8.7 percent raise.The […]




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Profiting From Risky Atherectomies That Can Lead to Amputations

Atherectomies and other procedures on Kelly Hanna’s veins and arteries started in February 2019.Her records do not always show which vessels Dr. Mustapha performed procedures on, instead only indicating which […]




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Merck Sues Over Medicare Drug-Price Negotiation Law

The pharmaceutical company Merck on Tuesday sued the government over a federal law that empowers Medicare for the first time to negotiate prices directly with drugmakers.Merck’s lawsuit, filed in federal […]







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How the U.S. Government Amassed $31 Trillion in Debt

WASHINGTON — America’s debt is now six times what it was at the start of the 21st century. It is the largest it has been, compared with the size of […]







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Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Increase Will Be Largest in Four Decades, an Estimate Says

More than 70 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits can expect an inflation adjustment to their monthly checks next year that will be the largest in four decades.Government inflation […]




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Student Loan Forgiveness Is Complicated, Because This Is America

If we want higher education to cost less, we should make it cheaper when people enroll.But that’s not how we do things in the United States, where the first rule […]




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Daily Crunch: Russia fines Google $374M for ‘illegal content’ over its Ukraine invasion

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s hot all over the world, and […]




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Financial Planning for People With Chronic Diseases

Before she became eligible for Medicare, Deborah Rosenwinkel, who lives in Wheaton, Ill., and has rheumatoid arthritis, used a manufacturer’s discount card for Enbrel, a biologic she injected at home […]