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Baby Boomers Worry About Their Health, Memory Loss
Baby boomers are more concerned with the ways that aging impacts their physical and mental health than the role it plays in their appearance. Fully 65 percent of baby boomers – who are currently...
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Medicare Changes Would Hit Lower-Income Seniors Hard
At a time when concern about federal deficits and the national debt are growing, few quarrel with the need to reform Medicare. The health insurance program for seniors and people with certain...
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Social Security Disability Income Under Fire From Budget Cutters
Although some people are convinced that federal Supplemental Security Disability Income (SSDI) program for severely disabled children is a boondoggle, a four-year-old boy diagnosed with severe ADHD is...
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Medicare Part B Premiums To Rise Slightly in 2012
Despite rumors to the contrary, the basic monthly premium for Medicare will be less than anticipated in 2012. The new Part B premium, which covers outpatient care, will be $99.90 a month for 2012,...
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90-Year-Olds Growing in Numbers
Is 90 the new 85? The number of Americans over the age of 90 has skyrocketed from 720,000 in the year 1980 to more than 1.9 million in 2010, according to the Census Bureau, which notes that “over the...
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Medicare Times Are a Changing
Baby boomers may not like it — and whoever wins the White House this year — but the Medicare that our parents knew and love is destined to change. And it’ll be like it or lump it. With more than 1.5...
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Mitt Romney Says “No” to Medicare on His 65th Birthday
Even though he just celebrated his 65th birthday, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney isn’t signing up for Medicare or Social Security. According to an aide, Romney plans to keep his private health...
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The Supreme Court Takes on the ACA
As the Supreme Court begins three days of hearing about the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Americans have mixed feelings about President Barack Obama’s...
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ACA’s Future Unclear As It Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) celebrates its second birthday, the Obama administration reminded senior citizens – one of the most reliable voter blocs — exactly how much...
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Aging Population Stresses Medicare
The aging population as millions of baby boomers turn 65 and a slowly recovering economy are stretching the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare. Soaring healthcare costs have put...
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