This year I, with my sidekick Michael Wicklein, took a more-careful-than-usual look at the Trustees Report for the Medicare program. After all, Medicare – like Social Security – relies on pay...
https://crr.bc.edu/medicare-trustees-report-for-2023-contained-no-bad-news/
The Food and Drug Administration recently granted fast-track approval to a new Alzheimer’s drug designed to slow the rate of cognitive decline for individuals in the early stages of the disease...
https://crr.bc.edu/new-alzheimers-drug-shows-some-promise-but-has-big-price-tag/
The brief’s key findings are: In the first year of the pandemic, 300,000 Americans ages 60+ died from COVID, with the oldest and least healthy at greater risk. The question here is, since those...
https://crr.bc.edu/will-survivors-of-the-first-year-of-the-pandemic-have-lower-mortality/
The brief’s key findings are: Even with Medicare coverage and ignoring long term care, retirees face sizable out-of-pocket costs for premiums, copays, and uncovered services. One way to gauge t...
https://crr.bc.edu/how-much-does-health-spending-eat-away-at-retirement-income/
Aduhelm, a drug developed recently by Biogen, has raised enormously important issues for Medicare. Biogen’s initial proposed price for Aduhelm was $56,000 per patient per year. Because Aduh...
The brief’s key findings are: Medicare’s finances have improved over the past decade, but major challenges remain, such as the program’s vulnerability to expensive new drugs. This risk was ...
One of my favorite conspiracy theorists suggested that the government was exaggerating the number of deaths due to COVID-19. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, COVID deaths...
https://crr.bc.edu/have-we-undercounted-or-overcounted-covid-19-deaths/
We have just completed the third study in our three-part series on the needs and resources available for long-term care. This issue is really important because many late-career workers and reti...
https://crr.bc.edu/who-will-have-unmet-long-term-care-needs/
The decision whether or not to cover Aduhelm, the new Alzheimer’s drug, has huge implications. Yikes. As I was extolling the virtues of Social Security’s 5.9 percent-COLA, the Centers for M...
https://crr.bc.edu/government-announces-surprising-hike-in-medicare-part-b-premiums/
The brief’s key findings are: A growing concern is whether retirees will have enough family and financial resources to meet their future long-term care needs. This study builds on our prior wor...
https://crr.bc.edu/who-will-have-unmet-long-term-care-needs-and-how-does-medicaid-help/
The second brief in our series on long-term care brings us one step closer to understanding the share of 65-year-olds that will be able to meet their long-term care needs in retirement. Just to...
https://crr.bc.edu/what-resources-do-65-year-olds-have-to-cover-long-term-care-in-retirement/
The brief’s key findings are: A growing concern is whether retirees will be able to meet future needs for long-term care without exhausting their resources. The analysis estimates how much supp...
https://crr.bc.edu/what-resources-do-retirees-have-for-long-term-services-supports/