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If We Get This Wrong...

Mary Ann West | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Move on.Org, Debate, Jim Himes, Tort Reform, Connecticut, High School, Aarp, Health Insurance, Cancer, Congressman, Ct, Tea Party Express, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Death Panel, Norwalk, Politics News

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.

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Age Rating in Health Reform Will Cost Everyone More

Natale Zimmer | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ageism, Health Care Reform, Aarp, OWL - the Voice of Midlife and Older Women, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare, Age Rating, Discrimination, Politics News

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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AARP Seeks More Neutral Image After Shedding Thousands Of Members

USA Today | Mimi Hall | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Death Panels, Lobbyists, Michael Steele, Barry Rand, Aarp, Jennie Chin Hansen, Medicare, Alliance-for-Retired-Americans, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- AARP, which has lost tens of thousands of members over its support for efforts to revamp the health care system, is preparing a post-Lab...

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Americans Want Universal Access to Graveyards

Julia Gorin | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Julia Gorin, Aarp, Socialism, Healthcare Reform, Obamacare, Town Hall Meetings, Obama Health Care, Soviet Union, Comedy News

I've often been astounded to hear the following sentence from Americans after they've learned that I escaped from the Soviet Union: "But at least everyone had medical coverage there."

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Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Most of us will do damn near anything to get out from under the thumbs of the multi-millionaire CEOs who are running our current insurance programs. Sign me up!

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AP Fact Check: No 'Death Panel' In Health Care Bill

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Palin, Sarah Palin, Death Panels, Palin Obama Death Panel, Palin Death Panels, Euthanasia, Palin Health Care, Medicare, Earl Blumenauer, Aarp, End of Life Care, End of Life, American Medical Association, Ama, Health Action, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says the health care overhaul bill would set up a "death panel." Federal ...

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A Multiple Choice Test for the State Department

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Iran, Obama Afghanistan, US State Department, Pakistan, Civilian Casualties, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Diplomacy, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Space Exploration, Aarp, Obama Iraq, North Korea, Politics News

In light of the reports that July was the deadliest month for U.S. and allied forces, in Afghanistan, I've come up with a multiple choice exam for the State Department.

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Death by Government? Hang the Opposition

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Aarp, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

The opponents of Obama's health care reform gave him a gift. They so overplayed their hand that now the president can show Americans how irrational, irresponsible and false their criticisms are.

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Crazy Pragmatism

Peter Birkenhead | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Health Care, Barack Obama Pragmatism, Pragmatism, Health Care Reform, Afl-Cio, Aarp, Obama AFL-CIO, Politics News

The insidious irony of the pragmatism favored by Obama and Emmanuel is that it legitimizes a delusional worldview and makes practical goals more difficult to achieve.

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Obama "A Little Frustrated" With Health Care Reform Stagnation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aarp, Obama Frustration, Barack Obama, Obama Reform, Obama Frustrated, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that he has grown "a little frustrated" with objections to his health care reform goals. "This is one of ...

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Stop Distorting the Truth about End of Life Care

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Aarp, Bipartisan, Health Care, Earl Blumenauer, End of Life Care, Health Care Rationing, Politics News

GOP leadership has been gravely distorting the truth and misrepresenting the facts about the bipartisan effort for the Life Sustaining Treatment Preferences Act.

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AARP: Results, Not Rhetoric

John Rother | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Patient Advocacy, Aarp, Older Women's League, Health Insurance, Health Care, Age Discrimination, Politics News

It is easy to criticize AARP for not taking an absolutist position on age rating in the current health care debate. We have a responsibility to pursue advocacy aims that can have a constructive impact.

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House Dem's Placebo Health Care Reform

Rob Kall | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, House of Representatives, Obama Healthcare Plan, Senate, Public Option, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Aarp, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News

So now, we're starting to see what the House of Representatives is going to offer we, the people. And it flat out sucks. For starters, the public option doesn't go into effect until 2013.

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AARP's Bait and Switch on Health Care

Martha Burk | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Older Women's League, Older Women, Senate Finance Committee, Senate Health Committee, Health Committee, Women's Health, Health Care Reform, Aarp, Health Insurance, Politics News

The health committee bill would require older folks to pay some multiple of the premiums charged to younger people for the same coverage, just because of their age.

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Are We Getting Too Old?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Russia, Aarp, China, Peak Oil, Health, Global Warming, Retirement, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Eternal Life, Business News

Another huge economic crisis is looming because, for developed countries, in the 80's, 5 workers supported a retired person. This has dropped to 4:1 and will crash to 2.2:1 in 2050.

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Bringing Seniors to the Health Care Table

Doug Schoen | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bi-Partisanship, Senate Finance Committee, Aarp, Senator Baucus, Chris Dodd, Medicare, Health Care, Congressional Budget Office, Barack Obama, Politics News

Rarely in Washington do you come across a moment of unequivocal bipartisan alignment, especially on an issue as polarizing as health-care reform. Today was one of them.

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The Biggest Problem With U.S. Health Care -- And How To Fix It!

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Palliative Care, Gerontology, Health, Aarp, American Medical Association, Alzheimer's, Centers for Disease Control, Health Care, Michael Moore Sicko, Age Wave, Dychtwald, Wellness, Elderly, Aging, Living News

We should focus on re-visioning healthcare's purpose: to create long-lived, productive and healthy men and women.

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Mortgage Crisis: Seniors Losing Their Golden Years

usatoday.com | Stephanie Armour | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Elderly, Subprime Mortgages, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Aarp, Housing Crisis, Seniors, Business News

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has slashed home values and triggered an unprecedented surge in foreclosures across the nation. I...

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Learning From History On Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

The most transformative health care overhauls that succeeded in the last century employed the same strategy: build on what we've got and let the changes happen organically.

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Finding Inspiration In Our Youth: The 'Lost Generation' Takes a Stand

Kari Henley | Posted 03.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Jane Goodall, Youth, Activism, Featured Contributor, Optimism, Political Activism, Pessimism, Aarp, Lost Genereation, Living News

Last week, I wrote about the impact of the economy on our children and explored if there is an "upside" to the down turning economy for families. (rea...

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Seeking Happiness? Try Pursuing Purpose

Anne Dunev | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Blood Sugar, Type 2 Diabetes, America, Purpose, Economic Crisis, Beer, Weight Loss Tips, Diet, Common Sense Nms, Puritanism, How to Lose Weight, Life Purpose, Happiness, Cream Puffs, Declaration of Independence, Weight Control, Cocktails, Biological, Dieting, David McCullough, Alcohol, John Adams, Purpose in Life, Aarp, Weight Loss, Diabetes, The Purpose Driven Life, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Healthcare, Ben Franklin, Living News

It appears we contemporary Americans may have switched the interpretation of "pursuit of happiness" to "pursuit of pleasure."

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Brian Williams Tells AARP Magazine: Obama, McCain Both "Quality Hangs...Good Guys To Hang Out With"

AARP Magazine | Joe Conason | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Aarp, Brian Williams AARP Magazine, AARP Magazine, Brian Williams, Media News

"I've never stopped feeling fortunate that I have this incredible, incredible front-row seat, quite literally, flying around with the candidates, driv...

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A New Age for Individual Service

Tom Nelson and Usher Raymond IV | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civic Duty, Aarp, Baby Boomers, New Look Foundation, Millenials, Servicenation, Volunteers, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Politics News

Younger Americans in the millennial generation, many of whom went to schools that required service to graduate, are better prepared for civic engagement than any other generation in our history.

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Americans Now Work Later Into Their Lives

AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Working Later, Growing Old, Telecommuting, Retirement, Aarp, Business News

CHICAGO — Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into...

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Older, Unhappy Women As Swing Voters

Janet Ritz | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Happiness Study, Hillary Voters Not Backing Obama, Politics, Older Women, John McCain, Hillary Voters, Economy, Sexism, Breaking Politics News, Aarp, 2008 Election and Sexism, Swing Voters, Barack Obama, Obama Women Voters, Barack Obama Women's Vote, Politics News

Older women might end up voting against their own interests with a McCain who, at least, culturally speaks their language, as opposed to an Obama, who does not seem to be speaking to them at all.

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