Archive - Patricia McCoy’s Substack

July 2025

The Great Risk Shift 2.0

The rollbacks to social safety nets in H.R. 1 are just the latest effort in a 50-year campaign to shift financial risk from big institutions and monied…

Jul 28 •

The Curious Email From Social Security

A July 4 email from the Social Security Administration claimed that Congress had eliminated federal income taxes on Social Security benefits, when it…

Jul 21 •

How to Cut Health Benefits and Dis a Majority of Voters in the Process

New Medicaid red tape and the loss of expanded Obamacare subsidies stand to hurt 93 million households

Jul 14 •

Time for Time Out

There will be no column this week, because I am on vacation.

Jul 7 •

June 2025

What Would Social Security’s Insolvency Do to Old-Age Benefits?

Social Security benefits would not drop to $0, but they would be cut by 23 percent unless Congress acts

Jun 30 •

Curtailing Need-Based Scholarships for College in the Land of Opportunity

What the proposed cutbacks to Pell Grants would mean

Jun 23 •

Is the Proposed Hike to the Child Tax Credit What It’s Cracked Up to Be?

Winners and losers under the House of Representatives’ proposal

Jun 16 •

Tick Tock . . . The Clock Is Running Out on Enhanced Premium Subsidies for Obamacare

How Congress is plotting to raise health insurance costs for families

Jun 9 •

How Congress Could Shoot Itself in the Foot

By cutting Medicaid

Jun 2 •

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