Multiple factors predispose women to needing long-term care
Multiple factors predispose women to needing long-term care Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Access to Care File, 2006…
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Health Costs Consume a Large Portion of Income for Millions of People with Medicare
Issue BriefTo document the affordability challenges posed by out-of-pocket health care costs for people with Medicare, this brief analyzes out-of-pocket health care costs as a share of Social Security income and total income, including other sources of income in addition to Social Security.
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Gaps Between Average Income of the Richest and Poorest Households in the United States
FeatureGaps Between Average Income of the Richest and Poorest Households in the United States Download Source Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of U.S. Census Bureau Data. Income is post-federal. tax and includes the value of the EITC, food stamps, and housing subsidies.
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Key Issues in Understanding the Economic and Health Security of Current and Future Generations of Seniors
Issue BriefAs part of broad deficit-reduction plans, policymakers are considering reforms to the nation's three major entitlement programs - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - that could significantly affect the economic security of seniors in their retirement years.
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Healthier and Wealthier, or Sicker and Poorer? Prospects for Medicare Beneficiaries Now and in the Future
Event Date:EventThis January 2014 briefing, co-sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alliance for Health Reform, examines what is known about the health and economic security of Medicare beneficiaries today, as well as how current and future beneficiaries may be affected by the leading proposals that aim to achieve Medicare savings.
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Wide Disparities in the Income and Assets of People on Medicare by Race and Ethnicity: Now and in the Future
ReportThis report examines the income, savings, and home equity of current and future Medicare beneficiaries, focusing on racial/ethnic disparities. The report finds that these differences in the financial well-being of white, black and Hispanic beneficiaries persist across age, education level, marital status, and other demographic factors.
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Comparing Poverty Rates under the Official Census Poverty Measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure
InteractiveThis interactive graphic illustrates how poverty rates among seniors in each of the 50 states change under two different Census Bureau measures of poverty: the official poverty measure and an alternative supplemental poverty measure, which takes into account health care and housing costs among other factors.
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Median Income of Medicare Beneficiaries Ages 65 and Over, by Gender, 2012
FeatureMedian Income of Medicare Beneficiaries Ages 65 and Over, by Gender, 2012 Download…
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Income and Out-of-Pocket Expenses Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries, by Gender and Age
FeatureIncome and Out-of-Pocket Expenses Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries, by Gender and Age Download…
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Old and Poor: America’s Forgotten
VideoWhile the Census Bureau’s official poverty measure shows 9 percent of seniors nationally live in poverty, the share climbs to about one in seven seniors (15 percent) under the Bureau’s alternative Supplemental Poverty Measure, which takes into account out-of-pocket health expenses and geographic differences in the cost of living. Produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Old and Poor: America's Forgotten provides a portrait of seniors who are living in poverty, in both urban and rural areas across the United States.