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The Individual Cost of Medicare

Most of the below information comes from Medicare’s 2017 Cost at a Glance.

How Medicare is funded

Medicare’s funding comes from two trust funds held by the United States Department of the Treasury. The money in the two trust fund accounts can only be used for Medicare.

The Logan Act Explained

George Logan was a Pennsylvania state legislator and farmer.

The Magnitsky Act Explained

Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer who uncovered fraud worth 230 million dollars on the part of Russian tax officials and police.

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Lunch Shaming

New Mexico has become the first state in the country to outlaw so-called lunch shaming. Lunch shaming is the name given to the different ways schools have humiliated children with unpaid lunch bills in an attempt to get parents to pay the bill.

Explaining Essential Health Care Benefits

As we wait for the Senate’s version of health care reform, I wanted to explain the 10 <a href=”https://www.healthcare.gov/blog/10-health-care-benefits-covered-in-the-health-insurance-marketplace/” target=_blank”>essential health care benefitsmandated by Obamacare.

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