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The Dangers of ‘Overage’ Drinking

U.S. News & World Report – Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, comments that both emergency room visits and inpatient hospital admissions for patients 65 and older are expected to roughly double over 2012 levels.

Is Social Security in Worse Shape than We Think?

The Wall Street Journal – Continued coverage on a Harvard-Dartmouth study coauthored by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which asserts that forecasting errors within the Social Security Administration, tied primarily to life-expectancy data, have significantly overstated the financial health of the benefits program.

Social Security May Be in Worse Shape Than We Thought: Study

NBC News – Points to research co-authored by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Gary King, director of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, which found that Social Security Administration have been consistently overstating the financial health of the program’s trust funds since 2000.

Experts: Social Security Forecasts Miscalculated by over $1 Trillion

Breitbart – Highlights research co-authored by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Gary King, director of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, which found that the Social Security Administration’s actuarial projections over the last 15 years have been overly optimistic about the health of the program’s trust funds and missed the mark by over $1 trillion.

Harvard Study: Social Security in Far Worse Shape than Official Numbers Show

Forbes – Points to research by scholars at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice and Harvard, which showed that over the last 15 years, the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Chief Actuary has consistently underestimated retirees’ life expectancy and made other errors that make the finances of the retirement system look significantly better than they are.

Overkill

The New Yorker – Highlights Less Medicine, More Health in which H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, explains why it is unnecessary to treat all cancers, and discusses research coauthored by Jonathan Skinner, which analyzed Medicare data since the Affordable Care Act was passed.