Medicare, which is already
the costliest public health insurance program in the world, is costing taxpayers an excess of $ 2 billion annually because of a practice called «upcoding» in private Medicare Advantage plans, according to research by an economist at The University of Texas at Austin.
If you are a
public - sector employee, you will suffer no tax increase at all — no matter how
costly your
health insurance — if the deal made behind closed doors between Democratic leaders in Congress, the White House, and powerful union officials goes through.