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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | A Million Young Adults Go on Parents' Insurance
That rush of young adults to sign up for insurance has slowed a longstanding trend: Adults 19 to 25 have been the age group least likely to have insurance.
CNN: Money | Health insurance costs to rise again next year
Employee health care benefit costs are expected to increase 5.4% next year, while the projected health insurance increase would be the smallest recorded in 15 years, it still remains well above the general rate of inflation, which stands at 3.9%, and salary growth.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
AEI | Means Testing and Its Limits
America faces a massive crisis of entitlement spending. The Congressional Budget Office projects that, just a decade from now, government debt will be greater than the nation's entire gross domestic product--and that the main driver of that debt will be entitlement programs.