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Medicare trustees give warning
Written by Andrew Szabo
Thursday, 02 June 2011 00:00
We had written last month, concerning Medicare, that the Hospital Insurance (“HI”) Trust Fund “has faced problems with solvency almost since inception.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) of 2010 extended the officially projected date of HI insolvency from 2017 to 2029. However, examined more carefully, this improvement is based primarily on projections of greatly increased health care productivity, which may never be realized.”
This gets a little technical — please stay with me. By way of background, the HI Trust pays for Medicare, Part A, which includes hospital, nursing home, home and hospice care, and other services for the aged and disabled. There is a second trust fund, Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI). It pays for Medicare, Part B, including doctors and outpatient care, and part D, which is for prescriptions and was enacted under President George W. Bush. SMI is called a trust fund, but it does not have long-term capital.There's nothing to do in Greenwich?
Written by Caroline Shavel
Thursday, 02 June 2011 00:00
Many teenagers bemoan the fact that on a Friday or Saturday, there’s little to do outside of going to a friend’s house to hang out. At school, the administration has caught wind of this problem.
During our periodic homeroom meetings, we are sometimes required to fill out surveys explaining what we do, what we like to do, and what we wish we could do for fun in Greenwich. Some people believe that there is a high correlation between teen drinking and drug use, and a lack of stimulating activities for teens in Greenwich. While I, along with any teenager living in Greenwich, have felt the boredom mentioned above at one point or another, Greenwich is a large town with a wide range of activity that could appeal to the younger demographic at any given time. Going to friend’s home is a person’s prerogative, but for those who want to explore what Greenwich has to offer, the approaching summer months couldn’t be a better time to do so.
Why can’t the trains, the highways and the planes...
Written by Jim Cameron
Thursday, 02 June 2011 00:00
Simple problems require simple solutions. And when it comes to solving our transportation woes, we consumers always wonder whey “they” can’t fix things quickly by doing what seems obvious and simple.
Take the following, for example:
On the rails
• Why can’t Metro-North make the bathrooms on the trains stink less?
• Why can’t we have heat in the winter and AC in the summer, instead of vice versa?
• Why can’t conductors announce each stop instead of hiding from passengers?Elegance
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Thursday, 26 May 2011 12:47
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A little rebellion
Written by Carter Johnson
Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:00
On a drenched day in mid May, Howard Fineman, senior editor of the Huffington Post and former deputy Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, delivered the address at Colgate University’s 190th Commencement. I was seated in the drafty fieldhouse that day watching my sister begin her life post-university, and so had the privilege of hearing Mr. Fineman speak. His speech was called “Carrying the Torch in A Digital Age,” and his words contained both levity and gravity. It raised questions as important now as they were when he himself graduated from Colgate on a similar spring day in 1970.
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