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  • Working-age Military Retirees might be charge a monthly fee for Tricare in future Budget Options

    01/01/2014 6:45:38 AM PST · by DEPcom · 20 replies
    The second alternative would make working-age military retirees and their families ineligible for TRICARE Prime, which is the most costly of the three programs for DoD. Those people could instead enroll in TRICARE Standard or Extra during the annual open-enrollment period or when a life event occurred (for example, a change in marital status). Enrollees in Standard or Extra would pay a monthly premium that would be set at 28 percent of the average cost of providing benefits for that group.
  • Retirement unlikely for some blue-collar Americans

    01/01/2014 5:21:20 AM PST · by gooblah · 47 replies
    Breitbart ^ | january 1 2014
    (AP) Retirement unlikely for some blue-collar Americans By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press Tom Edwards grew up in a family that's been cutting trees and hauling timber in the Pacific Northwest for more than a century. The Spanaway, Wash., resident says he has worked as a logger since he was a kid _ it's just what an able-bodied youngster was expected to do.
  • Long-stalled S.F. housing project for LGBT seniors on track

    12/31/2013 7:22:00 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 52 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 30, 2013 | John Wildermuth
    The deep rumble of bulldozers and other construction equipment at the former UC Extension campus at Laguna and Haight streets in San Francisco is a welcome sound not only to the folks who will be building about 440 housing units on the site but also to the city officials who helped jump-start the long-stalled development. The help - and money - provided by city housing officials "is really what's made this project move forward," said Seth Kilbourn of Openhouse, one of the site's developers and a group that provides services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors.
  • Obamacare Shock: Strip Assets From Dead Seniors (Medicaid)

    12/24/2013 4:27:25 PM PST · by Libloather · 86 replies
    Western Journalism ^ | 12/23/13 | Doug Book
    The Affordable Care Act was designed to dramatically increase the number of Americans who qualify for Medicaid. In fact, the ACA will literally FORCE many low income seniors onto Medicaid rolls as subsidies for regular ObamaCare plans are NOT available to those over 55 years of age who earn less than 138% of the federal poverty level ($15,856 for individuals; $21,403 for married couples). And without such subsidies, ObamaCare plans are generally far too expensive for older, low-income individuals or couples. Why should any of this matter to those getting “free” healthcare via Medicaid? Because: “If you’re 55 or over,...
  • ObamaCare’s New Year’s Day Surprise: Deep Cuts to Medicare

    12/22/2013 5:53:22 AM PST · by IbJensen · 63 replies
    AMAC ^ | 12/18/2013 | Andrew Mangione
    As if ObamaCare’s botched website, coverage cancellations, and higher costs were not bad enough, the Obama Administration has quietly dealt yet another blow – this time striking millions of the nation’s most vulnerable seniors. Specifically, the Obama Administration has decided to deeply cut funding for the Medicare program’s home health benefit as a way to help pay for ObamaCare. The Administration made this announcement very quietly, waiting to do so until the very end of the last Friday before Thanksgiving, perhaps thinking that most people would not be looking. To be sure, the timing of the Administration’s quiet announcement did...
  • Will Americans ever rise up against the “hustlers” destroying our culture?

    12/20/2013 12:56:01 PM PST · by Oldpuppymax · 13 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 12/20/13 | Suzanne Eovaldi
    This Golden Globes fave has a famous theme built around the 1970s Abscam Hustle, and its trio of stars provide a trilogy of how rotten American financial brainiacs hurt us every day. I guess. But what about all of the American Hustles happening every day in every home and extended family? One of the biggest hustles of which I am acutely aware is the way in which adult children hustle their sick, old parents. The PALM BEACH POST is carrying pitiful stories each week in the run up to our Christmas Celebration of the birth of our Christ Child. One...
  • Military retirees 'screwed' in budget deal

    12/18/2013 6:13:57 AM PST · by BlatherNaut · 12 replies
    CNNMoney ^ | 12/18/13 | Jenifer Liberto
    Military retirees are getting "screwed" by a budget deal expected to pass the Senate on Wednesday, said Sen. Lindsey Graham. "Is the choice between keeping the government open and screwing all the military retirees? Is that that right choice?" said Graham, Republican from South Carolina.
  • Obamacare’s homecare cuts to hit sick and old New Years Day

    12/12/2013 10:37:30 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 27 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | December 12, 2013 | Christopher Bedford
    Starting Jan. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin slashing 14 percent of their Home Health Care Prospective Payment Program budget, driving small home health-care providers out of business and potentially affecting millions of poor, elderly citizens in need of physical rehabilitation. The cuts — which are being made to fund Obamacare — will slash the homecare budget 3.5 percent every year for the next four. “By CMS’s own calculation, 40 percent or nearly 5,000 home health companies — mainly small businesses — will experience a “net loss” in revenue due to the cuts and go...
  • Why US baby boomers are retiring in Latin America

    12/02/2013 7:35:24 AM PST · by posterchild · 61 replies
    Christian Science Monitor ^ | Dec 1, 2013 | Daniel B. Wood
    LOS ANGELES — After 20 years in the US military, James Cummiskey was divorced and looking for a change. Relenting to his buddy's request, he flew to Medellín, Colombia, for a visit. He looked, he saw, and, by dinner time, he decided to stay. Permanently. "After four to five hours, I was immediately captured by everything I saw," says the ex-marine, who has lived in 35 countries. He spent the next four months selling two homes, three vehicles, two motorcycles, and one airplane. He put the money aside and decided to retire early. Now he lives in a posh section...
  • Frontline/ProPublica’s Misguided Attack on The Assisted Living Industry Part 1

    12/01/2013 1:54:02 PM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 1, 2013 | Bruce Bialosky
    Rarely does an investigative report manage to unite industry executives, academics, and regulators in such a way as the recent Frontline/ProPublica Life and Death in Assisted Living. Unfortunately for the producers and writers, they have united all three elements in expressing how their report misrepresented the industry. The Frontline show originally aired on July 30, 2013, on PBS for one hour, and the accompanying four-part series written by A.C. Thompson (who hosted and co-produced the Frontline show) appeared concurrently in ProPublica. They claim to have spent over a year on the project. It is unclear when they developed their...
  • Thomas Sowell: I’m glad I’m getting old

    11/17/2013 1:28:22 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 89 replies
    The High Point Enterprise ^ | November 12, 2013 | Thomas Sowell
    One of the reasons for being glad to be as old as I am is that I may be spared living to see a race war in America. Race wars are often wars in which nobody wins and everybody ends up much worse off than they were before. Initial skirmishes in that race war have already begun, and have in fact been going on for some years. But public officials pretend that it is not happening, and the mainstream media seldom publish it at all, except in ways that conceal what is really taking place. For American society, a dangerous...
  • Medicare is Seizing Estates of anyone over 55.

    11/13/2013 3:31:42 PM PST · by Vince Ferrer · 136 replies
    Michael Armstrong's blog ^ | November 13, 2013 | Glen Downs
    “So here’s the deal: since 1993 there has been a federal law requiring states to recover at least some of the costs of Medicaid-covered medical care for anyone 55 years old and up, from the estates of those covered. States enforce this law, with their own laws and policies added in, differently in every state. But the general principle is there. Up until now the usual consequence has been things like this: Medicaid puts a lien on the house of someone in a nursing facility who has run out of money, and after they die, the heirs find they have...
  • Blame game as insurers dump doctors (Another Obama lie. No you can't keep your doctor.)

    11/10/2013 5:30:35 PM PST · by tobyhill · 39 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/9/2013 | By Carl Campanile
    Let the blame game begin over ObamaCare’s oversights. The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, claims the Affordable Care Act is responsible for forcing it to boot doctors from its Medicare Advantage program that serves thousands of elderly patients in the New York metro region. CEO Jack Larsen, under fire for separating seniors from their MDs, took out full-page ads to explain that cuts in Medicare spending forced the ­insurer’s hand. “We are working to collaborate with a more focused network of physicians to help us provide higher quality and more affordable health care coverage to meet the needs of our...
  • Blame game as insurers dump doctors

    11/09/2013 7:35:06 PM PST · by Mike Darancette · 34 replies
    New York Post ^ | 11/9/2013 | Carl Campanile
    Let the blame game begin over ObamaCare’s oversights. The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, claims the Affordable Care Act is responsible for forcing it to boot doctors from its Medicare Advantage program that serves thousands of elderly patients in the New York metro region. CEO Jack Larsen, under fire for separating seniors from their MDs, took out full-page ads to explain that cuts in Medicare spending forced the ­insurer’s hand.
  • Seniors lose insurance and doctors under Obamacare [Thank you, AARP /sarc]

    11/08/2013 6:43:37 PM PST · by markomalley · 48 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 11/8/2013 | Evan Gahr
    Retired chemist Edward Schokowitz was incredulous when he received a letter from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey early last month saying his Medicare Advantage Plan, which had no premium, would be eliminated next year.“They took all the senior citizens and threw us out of the plan. They now want to give us the same plan for $153 [per month],” he told the Daily Caller. “The President said you can’t be kicked out of your plan. He lies.”Schokowitz is one of many Medicare beneficiaries now learning that — like Americans who buy insurance on the individual market —...
  • Seniors Going Back To Work to Salvage Their Retirement Nest Eggs, Says AMAC

    10/28/2013 6:16:36 AM PDT · by smokingfrog · 27 replies
    AMAC.us ^ | 10-25-13 | AMAC Authors, press release
    Seniors who went back to work after retirement used to do it to keep busy, but the Obama Recession and the uncertainties of the Affordable Care Act have made it an economic necessity for more and more older Americans, according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens. “Two recent Gallup surveys show that there are more post-retirement job seekers out there than ever before, mainly because they’ve lost confidence in the economy. The historically destructive recession that started as the president took office and his inability to speed up the recovery have seniors scrambling for ways...
  • Hunter, 72, survives 19 days in snowy California wilderness

    10/14/2013 10:29:27 AM PDT · by Kartographer · 34 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 10/14/13 | Karen Brooks
    A 72-year-old California deer hunter was recovering Monday after surviving on squirrels and packing leaves around him for warmth for nearly three weeks while he was lost and alone in the snowy wilderness, authorities said. Gene Penaflor was discovered by hunters on Saturday after 19 days in the Mendocino National Forest in the Coastal Mountain Range of northwestern California, according to a report by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
  • Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare

    10/11/2013 7:34:38 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 95 replies
    WTNH-TV ^ | October 10, 2013 | Jocelyn Maminta
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH)-- In the midst of major changes in health care, United HealthCare has sent thousands of pink slips to Connecticut doctors. Termination letters went to physicians caring for Medicare patients. Those letters were sent out to doctors caring for 'Medicare Advantage' patients. It's a plan, marketed to Seniors to provide additional services through UnitedHealthCare. A mix of primary care and specialty doctors are affected by it. And it comes at a questionable time. Open enrollment for Medicare starts next Tuesday, and it's still not clear at this time as to which doctors are still in the United...
  • Seniors Advice from Wise FReepers ~ 1 October 2013

    10/01/2013 4:12:55 AM PDT · by beachn4fun · 10 replies
    October 1, 2013 | Me
    Looking for input from anyone who is using or has used Amac. I've received literature from Amac - The Conservative Alternative to AARP, and would like to hear reviews from anyone currently using it. Please, this is a serious question, and I would like serious answers. Thank you all.
  • Seniors push bill to repeal Obamacare provision that raises their costs

    09/18/2013 2:07:37 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 09/18/2013 | Joel Gerhke
    Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., introduced a bill to repeal a provision of Obamacare that threatens to increase costs for senior citizens after constituents brought the issue to his attention. “This piece of legislation is a direct result of the concerns of the people I represent and discussions with the people of Green Valley,” Barber said in a statement Tuesday on the Helping Families and Seniors Save on Health Care Act. “The most important thing I can do is bring the voice of our community to Washington. In this case, that means protecting Southern Arizona seniors from rising health-care costs," Barber...