Old Folks To Senate: Vote For Cloture Already
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), AARP CEO Addison Barry Rand backed the leader's health care bill and urged the chamber to v...
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Big Pharma Raises Prices 10% Even As It Promises To Cut Nation's Drug Costs
New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
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Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
AARP Rival Targets Pro-Health Reform Democrats
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
The 60 Plus Association -- the "conservative alternative" to the AARP -- is launching a new advertising campaign against House Democrats who voted in ...
AARP, AFL-CIO Boost House Health Plan That Taxes Rich, Not Middle Class
Art Levine | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
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The centrist lobbying powerhouse for the elderly, the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP), is scheduled to endorse the House health care bill despite its possibly flawed public option.
AARP To Endorse House Health Care Bill: AP
AP | ERICA WERNER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Officials are telling The Associated Press that AARP_the seniors' lobby_will endorse the health care overhaul bill that House Democ...
Ageism 2009
Jim Selman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
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At a time when we need family and community solidarity more than ever, we are witnessing a growing wave of age-based debate and controversy.
Why the Silence on Extending Jobless Health Care Benefits?
Mark Miller | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
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What's more important: a cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits for retired people, or health insurance subsidies for the unemployed? The answer depends on your clout in Washington.
Unemployment Among Americans 65 or Older Surges, Highest Since Great Depression
nytimes.com | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
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It is well known that during the nation's gale-force recession, many older Americans who dreamed of retirement continued to work, often because their ...
Make A Difference Day: Saturday's Event Brings Together Millions Of Volunteers
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
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Nineteen years ago, USA WEEKEND magazine initiated Make A Difference Day, an event to encourage volunteerism and action on the fourth Saturday of ever...
Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money
Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
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You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.
Serve The Community With Create The Good
Tom Nelson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Impact
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Americans are ready to serve. Research conducted last year for AARP found that four in 10 people ages 44 to 79 expected to volunteer more in the next five years.
Faith Hill PSA Encourages Community Service
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
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As part of the Entertainment Industry Foundation's week of volunteerism, Faith Hill has filmed a Public Service Announcement encouraging viewers to gi...
AARP Struggles To Win Over Membership On Health Reform
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
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The Hill reports that health care reform has proven the most divisive issue tackled by influential lobbying group AARP. Nancy LeaMond, who heads the ...
Bankrupt Retirees: Older Americans Are Most Likely To Declare Bankruptcy
Newsweek | Linda Stern | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
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Older Americans are heading into and through retirement with a boatload of debt. They're carrying everything from mortgages and home-equity loans to b...
The Workforce is Aging, but Where Are the Age-Friendly Employers?
Mark Miller | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
The Great Recession is pushing older workers to postpone retirement, but will employers accommodate them?
My Recent Trip to the Mailbox
Byron Williams | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
AARP's arrival robs any sober-thinking individual of the impulses of denial. We can lie to our friends, but if AARP says you're 50, you're 50.
Does Humana Have a Free Speech Right To Mislead The Elderly?
Dawn Teo | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
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Medicare officials have admonished one provider for using customer lists to engage in political advocacy and lobbying -- a policy shift that could establish new legal principles in First Amendment law.
Grandma's Got Game
Jessica Rovello | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
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Those of us in the games business know that grandma, grandpa, and great uncle Fred are the little secret that drive millions of game plays monthly across a host of sites.
Ignored by All Media: Major Health Care Provider Organizations Testify in Support of House Bill
Paul Abrams | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
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It might do the media well to devote more than one segment to the reality that the major health care providers and established patient organizations support the President's health care reform.
Senior White House Adviser: Wilson "A Pimple On The Ass Of Progress"
The Daily Beast | Richard Wolffe | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
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The White House hits the road for health care reform, and speaks out--proclaiming the town halls didn't matter, and branding Joe Wilson "a pimple on t...
A Short Guide to the Public Option Fight, and the 75-Year Battle Over Universal Health Care
Robert Reich | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
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With Congress returning from recess to consider health care legislation and the President set to deliver a major address on the subject to both houses of Congress tomorrow, a bit of history may be in order.
Health Reform and a Strong Medicare Program
John Rother | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
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After months of being bombarded by myths about death panels, socialized medicine and rationed care, AARP members are asking legitimate questions about how they would be affected by health reform.
Revised formula counts more Americans in poverty
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON — The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision o...
If We Get This Wrong...
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
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What will be catastrophic is if we continue as we are, with only those who are healthy, wealthy, employed with a really great insurance plan or with Medicare coverage reaping the benefits.
Age Rating in Health Reform Will Cost Everyone More
Natale Zimmer | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
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While there is much to be gained through passage of current health reform proposals, Congress' best intentions will be overshadowed if age discrimination is written into federal law.
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