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Big Beautiful Bill Ripples. Medicare Part A Goes Bust 12 Years Earlier
Feb. 28, 2026 --The Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is now projected to be depleted by 2040, 12 years earlier than the Congressional Budget Office projected just last year. Experts at KFF says that the tax cuts in the "Big Beautiful Bill" are behind this giant change. This does not mean Medicare runs out of money completely. Instead,…...
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Woodbury is a suburb of Philadelphia in New Jersey. The town is about 10,000 people. Photo of Woodbury Friends' Meetinghouse courtesy of Wikipedia and Ton2cats, photo of The old Gloucester County Courthouse in Woodbury courtesy of Wikipedia and Jerry & Roy Klotz, MD, Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0/ For more details about this area consult our review of Philadelphia....
Galena, one of the most beautiful towns in Illinois, is a small community of a little over 3,000 residents and popular with retirees and vacationers. It is located in northwestern Illinois near the Mississippi River and the Wisconsin and Iowa borders. The town is named for galena, an ore of lead, lead sulfide. Galena is in Jo Daviess County. Many…...
Independence is a small town of about 9,400 in southeastern Kansas, very near the Oklahoma border. The town recently received significant fame for its Independence Public Library (pictured above courtesy of the Library's Facebook page), which was named the "Best Small" library in the country by Library Journal. Part of the reason for the prize was the library's hard journey…...
Washington Court Houseis a small town of 12,000 in south central Ohio, located approximately halfway between Cincinnati and Columbus, and is the county seat of Fayette County. The population was 14,192 (2010 census). Picture of the Fayette County Courthouse in Washington Court House courtesy of Wikipedia and Bwsmith84, Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0/...
