Those of us older Americans with memory have discovered that, so far, President Obama is not a Franklin Roosevelt of tough bank regulation and Social Security; or a Lyndon Johnson of civil rights and Medicare.
Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 01.06.2010 | New York
The picture for nursing homes in New York is already grim. In the last 32 months, nursing homes have lost over $1 billion through a series of six state budget cuts.
Mariah Summers | Posted 01.05.2010 | New York
Small community-based labs like Brooklyn's Modern Diagnostics may be forced to cut services to seniors, especially those in nursing homes, due to health care reform legislation.
Posted 12.04.2009 | Business
MIAMI (MATT SEDENSKY -- AP) -- Lawmakers have wooed seniors skeptical of the health care overhaul by emphasizing the plan would close the "doughnut ho...
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact
LAS VEGAS — A new study by the Meals on Wheels Association of America shows roughly six million seniors are at risk of being hungry. The charit...
Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
A retirement community in Largo, Florida is fighting to evict six-year-old Kimberly Broffman from the home of her grandparents Jimmy and Judie Stottle...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
A senior issues group that caused an uproar by sending out a mailer jam-packed with misleading scare tactics regarding health care reform now says it ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
A new mailer being sent to senior citizens warns that Democratic-considered health care reform would result in the rationing of care and the creation ...
washingtonpost.com | Neil Irwin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Congressional leaders welcomed President Obama's proposal to make $250 payments to Social Security recipients Thursday, as a government report confirm...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
The Hill reports that health care reform has proven the most divisive issue tackled by influential lobbying group AARP. Nancy LeaMond, who heads the ...
New York Times City Room | Sarah Maslin Nir | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
Gossiping and laughing, they climbed onto the big yellow school bus on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. But the 20 people clambering ab...
Newsweek | Linda Stern | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
In a late-effort push to alter or torpedo health care reform, the major lobby for private insurers has made a multi-state, million-dollar ad purchase ...
Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver
Never before has one group appropriated as much money that belonged to another group in the history of crime. It was literally and figuratively as easy as taking candy out of the mouths of children.
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits ...
Fort Morgan Times. | Fort Morgan Times | Posted 11.25.2009 | Home
Jesse Home of Denver’s 9News TV station came to Fort Morgan on Friday to document all the effort the local prep sports teams have made to help o...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
As the Huffington Post continues to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we've found additional comp...
Denise Dennis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
PARIS -- September 22 -- The heated debate over healthcare reform continued last week in an unlikely place, the cobblestone courtyard of an apartmen...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
I don't know that TRICARE is the best possible care, but I can point to my parents, who still ride their tandem bike every day and swim every day and are healthy enough to plan a January trip to Antarctica.
The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
Nursing-home residents in the Denver area are being targeted by a ring of male thieves who pass themselves off as female nurses to gain entrance to se...
The Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Fresh off his trip to Iraq, Vice President Biden will wade deep into the health-care debate next week, according to administration sources. Biden is ...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The President's plan seems to be getting nowhere, and we who already have Medicare can just say "The hell with it." But I think we'd better all give it more thought, and somebody ought to think about a solution rather than shout, "No, no, no."
New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In his speech to Congress at 8 p.m. Wednesday, President Obama will press his case for major health care legislation, not just with lawmakers in the a...
Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
This just in from Palin's facebook as part of her educating the public on "Death Panels." Why she keeps signing "governor" is beyond me. She quit...or...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision o...
Saul Friedman | Posted 01.07.2010 | Politics