Are boomers turning 65 on a collision course with health care reform?

Starting next year, baby boomers will be turning 65 at the rate of one every ten seconds.  This means an average of 4 million New Seniors a year through 2030.  They will join the 30 million existing New Seniors community who are already settled into this phase of life.  One question being asked is what [...]

More Americans favor health care reform as summer ends

Polling conducted in mid-July and six weeks later, prior to Labor Day, shows the hot summer has not cooled down the growing opposition to the health care reform legislation signed into law earlier this year.  This suggests the controversial bill will not only be an important part of the decision-making process in the upcoming elections, [...]

What’s going on with health care reform implementation?

A year ago the Tea Party was protesting against the various health care bills being floated around Washington.  Town Hall meetings were getting started and the politicians soon realized their constituents had concerns and voiced them.  Most of us were trying to understand what the various options meant and how they might affect the wellbeing [...]

Change belongs to the people

Every few years the political party not in power promises change if they get elected.  We have heard this rhetoric time and time again at the local, state and national levels.  Often the public votes for change, but when the dust settles everything reverts back to business, make that politics, as usual. 

 
The presidential election of [...]

Impressions about the health care summit and how it affects pre-boomers

Histrionics outshined the topic of reform at the health care summit.  During the more than seven hours of this made-for-television event participants tried to strut their stuff.  Yet these efforts seemed to be directed toward fellow politicians rather than to those Americans who took the time and had the inclination to watch the proceedings at [...]

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