On December 1st, bloggers from around the world will unite for World AIDS Day 2008. Worldwide an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV. In the United States, an estimated one million Americans are living with HIV. In response, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) www.nida.nih.gov/ and the U.S. Department of Health [...]
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By Pat Boone and Jim Martin, New York Daily News, November 28th 2008
Only in Washington could a supposedly self-funded government program that’s operating in the red and facing insolvency walk away from an opportunity to save billions of dollars.Yet that’s exactly what Medicare, the health care program for seniors, is doing: shamefully ignoring an opportunity to [...]
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Filed under: Medicare and Health Insurance
Findings cut across race, education levels, and could affect quality of health care, study says
Nov. 25, 2008 (HealthDay News) — How well a person on Medicare understands the program’s benefits affects their access to health care, a new study says according to US News and World Reports
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David Bly, For The Calgary Herald, November 25, 2008
In Canada, when discussion turns to reforming the health-care system you often hear, “But we don’t want an American system.” Since moving to the U. S. about two years ago, I have often heard, in discussions about health-care reform, “But we don’t want a Canadian system.”Among my [...]
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Filed under: Senior Health Care
By Jane Gross, The New York Times, November 20, 2008
Are children legally responsible for their parents’ care? (Susan Farley for The New York Times)
At the end of my mother’s life, for six months, a year at most, Medicaid paid for her care in a nursing home.She was broke by then, after living on a pittance [...]
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By Steve Shay, West Seattle Herald, Friday, November 21, 2008
Ask professional driving instructor Daniel Lilleness what the difference is between teaching 15 year-olds and teaching senior citizens, and he will declare, “The young ones you cannot get their foot on the brake and the old ones you cannot get their foot off the brake. It [...]
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Filed under: Retiree and Senior Resources
Crack opens with Senate Finance Committee’s ranking member demanding answers to questions about misleading marketing of insurance by AARP. Reported by http://www.seniorjournal.com/Nov. 19, 2008. The wheels may be about to come off the AARP train that has pulled millions of older Americans along the path of believing the organization is their benefactor and exists only [...]
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Filed under: Senior Finances and Economy
Many grappling with golden year disappointments as nest eggs dwindle
By Melissa Dah, lHealth writer, MSNBC, Nov. 20, 2008
It was so close. And then, it wasn’t. Fifty-year-old Eddie Whitlock thought he was closing in on his hard-earned golden years. According to his master plan, in just five short years he’d retire from his job as executive [...]
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By LAURENCE ILIFF / The Dallas Morning News | liliff@dallasnews.com | Nov 16, 2008
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico – Laredo native Alice Edwards and her helicopter pilot husband have an active lifestyle in this picturesque town popular among retired Texans. But the 60-somethings are also the new owners of a townhouse in Mexico’s first assisted-living [...]
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This is good information for planning purposes for those holding on to any gift cards. This may not be the year to give or receive gifts cards. Watch those store money cards and gift cards and credit slips. These are stores that informed the Security Exchange of closing plans between October 2008 and January 2009.
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A fast way to find the least expensive Medicare Part D drug plan that covers your prescriptions By Patricia Barry – October 24, 2008
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Original Medicare or Medicare Private Health Plan, Do You Have the Right One
By Medicare Rights Center
Sept. 13, 2008 – Every year, between November 15 and March 31, everyone with Medicare can change how they receive their Medicare benefits – to Original Medicare or to one of the private health plans (also known as “Medicare Advantage” [...]
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