Posted on February 7th, 2009 by Iwaller
PBS Show Focuses on Seniors Under Siege in the Recession, New America Media, By Paul Kleyman In “Over Fifty, Overdrawn: How is the financial meltdown affecting boomers and seniors,” NOW’s Maria Hinojosa, a senior correspondent, reports that “people 50 and older hold a staggering one quarter of the delinquent mortgages in the country. And for [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Iwaller
A Public Health Insurance Plan Part III Part III – A road map to healthcare reform. If we heed lessons of the past, we can achieve universal coverage. By Jacob S. Hacker with The Christian Science Monitor, February 3, 2009 Berkeley, Calif. – The economic stimulus package just passed by the House contains much to [...]
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Filed under: Medicare and Health Insurance
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Iwaller
A Public Health Insurance Plan Part II Part II – Public Health Plan Would Reduce Costs, Improve Quality By Mary Agnes Carey with CQ Healthbeat News, February 5, 2009 Allowing Americans to get their health coverage from a public health insurance plan would provide better care that costs less while offering real competition to private [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Iwaller
Part I – Reducing Costs and Improving Quality. By Frank Clemente with the Institute for America’s Future, Report: February 4, 2009 We can lower health care costs, provide greater efficiency and quality, give more financial security to people facing illness and help cover the costs of insuring the uninsured if we allow a public health insurance [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Iwaller
Sound The Alarm! Peterson Foundation Assault On “Entitlements” By Roger Hickey with Campaign For America’s Future, February 5th, 2009 At a press conference today by Wall Street mogul Peter Peterson, he and his invited speakers informed Americans who are losing their jobs and homes in record numbers that our nation’s biggest problem is the national [...]
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Filed under: Senior Finances
Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Iwaller
When Should You Begin Receiving Social Security Benefits? BY TODD C. RATNER, ESQ an estate-planning, business, and real-estate attorney with the law firm of Bacon/Wilson, provides educational and thought provoking considerations about when seniors and boomers should plan to receive their Social Security Benefits.
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Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Iwaller
Dementia describes a group of symptoms that are caused by changes in brain function. Dementia symptoms may include asking the same questions repeatedly; becoming lost in familiar places; being unable to follow directions; getting disoriented about time, people, and places; and neglecting personal safety, hygiene, and nutrition. People with dementia lose their abilities at different [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Iwaller
The House and Senate on December 10 and December 11, respectively, approved the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (HR 7327) by unanimous consent and was signed into law by President Bush on December 23, 2008. “Congress worked swiftly, and in a bipartisan way, in order to provide important relief to seniors who [...]
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