Healthcare
KGO News, November 18th, 2009
Can you afford NOT to have long term care? The long term care crisis and its impact on your family's future financial security.
Long term care crisis: The cost of long term
care can severely impact your family's future
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Annapolis Capital, November 15th, 2009Q: I am new to Medicare. I have my Medicare Part A and
Part B. I elected a Medigap plan to complement my Medicare A and B.
However, I am not on any medicines and so do not see the advantage for
enrolling in Medicare
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Associated Press, October 14th, 2009A surprising number of frail, elderly Americans in nursing homes are
suffering from futile care at the end of their lives, two new federally
funded studies reveal.
One found that putting nursing home
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Detroit Free Press, November 9th, 2009Seniors looking to buy supplemental Medicare policies may have to do
more work to learn about them. They often aren't widely advertised by
leading insurers.
But several companies new to the business
hope
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The New York Times, October 24th, 2009It is well known that during the nation’s gale-force recession, many older Americans who dreamed of retirement continued to work, often because their 401(k)’s had plunged in value.In fact, there are more Americans
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The New York Times, October 14th, 2009PEOPLE over 65 should buy a Medigap policy, consumer advocates say, but picking
a Medigap plan can be difficult, and at least one important health care
bill heading for a vote in the Senate could make it even harder.The
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Los Angeles Times, October 27th, 2009Senior citizens should be on their guard against possible fraud when
open enrollment for two popular healthcare programs begins Nov. 15.
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner warns that some
sales agents
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The Wall Street Journal, October 14th, 2009As companies begin unveiling their workplace benefits for next year,
many employees are learning they will have to dig even deeper into
their pockets for health coverage.
Such price increases have become
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Market Watch, October 8th, 2009Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus promises
that the huge health-care reform bill his committee will vote on next
week will protect Medicare benefits for seniors. But not everyone
agrees, and a fight is brewing
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Baltimore Sun, October 1st, 2009All of the health care reform plans propose serious cuts in the Medicare program. Seniors' concerns about those cuts jeopardize passage of any plan.
The Medicare prescription drug benefit is expected to cost $395 billion
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The Wall Street Journal, October 1st, 2009More than 660,000 seniors next year will lose the private Medicare
plans they now have because some insurers are dropping coverage in
response to tougher federal requirements.
Most of those beneficiaries are
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Reuters, September 16th, 2009As the baby boom generation moves throughretirement, the number of people affected by Alzheimer's is likely to wellexceed 11 million by 2040. In recognition of World Alzheimer's Day,Retirement Living TV (RLTV), the only network
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The New York Times, September 10th, 2009 President Obama’s new call to impose automatic spending cuts if the health care overhaul adds “one dime” to federal budget deficits could help push his top domestic priority over one of the biggest hurdles in its
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The New York Times, August 23rd, 2009For 10 days in June, Kristen Murphy chose to live somewhere she and many others fear: a nursing home. Ms. Murphy, who is in perfect health, had to learn the best way to
navigate a wheelchair around her small room,
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The New York Times, August 16th, 2009IN the 1980s, I worked as a respiratory therapist in intensive-care
units in the Midwest, taking care of elderly, dying patients on
ventilators. I remember marveling, along with the young doctors and
nurses I worked
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