Social Security freeze means seniors must scrimp

If her check were bigger, 76-year-old Agnes Conti might be able to spring for a better cut of meat for her pot roast. She could afford to send her nine grandchildren more than $20 for their birthdays and Christmas. She'd be able to buy some nice new clothes, like she sees on QVC, not what she settles for at Walmart.

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How health care overhaul could change Medicare

Businessman Stewart Grill, 75, believes there's waste in Medicare. He's just skeptical Congress can find and eliminate it without touching what he likes about his government health care plan.

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Democrats trying to sell health plan to seniors

The White House and Democrats are laboring to attract skeptical seniors to their drive to reshape the nation's health care system, leading some to press the behemoth but reluctant AARP to be more aggressive about backing them.

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For class of 2009, degree doesn’t mean a job

The college class of 2009 faces a daunting task finding jobs in the worst economy since the Great Depression, employment counselors and job placement specialists say.

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Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care

President Barack Obama is seeking to reassure the nation's seniors that health care overhaul won't mean cuts in Medicare.

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Obama stimulus holds benefits for seniors

From a one-time $250 payment to a 50 percent increase in the limits for reverse mortgages, there are some housing-related items in President Barack Obama's stimulus plan that potentially can help seniors maneuver through difficult economic times.

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For older voters, too, a call for change

The town squares here reliably fill at the same time every day as retirees pile in for singing and dancing. Restaurants offer the same early-bird specials on the same days each week, and patrons wake up to swallow the same pills over the same breakfast. There is a rhythm to life, one often found in the familiarity and comfort of routines.

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Fatal crash highlights lure of casinos for seniors

The casinos run by American Indian tribes in Northern California work to attract lonely seniors on fixed incomes by offering cheap transportation on charter buses like the one that crashed over the weekend, killing eight people and injuring dozens.

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Senior citizens pursuing education from home

Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature.

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Study: Bankruptcies soar for senior citizens

First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do.

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Humphrey, Hayes nominated to hall as seniors

Claude Humphrey and Bob Hayes were nominated by the seniors committee Wednesday as finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Obama's 'no income taxes on seniors' draws critics

If you're a senior citizen and make less than $50,000 a year, Barack Obama has a deal for you: the rest of your life free of federal income tax.

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Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web

If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.

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Toyota to Develop Cars for Seniors

For those feeling nervous behind the wheel as old age kicks in, savvy cars may be the answer.

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McCain, Huckabee Court Seniors

Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mike Huckabee courted seniors Thursday with promises to slow soaring health care costs but neither endorsed the type of universal health care system offered by their Democratic rivals.

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Agency Offers AIDS Education to Elderly

While volunteers passed out cups of Jell-O to the white-haired lunch crowd at a senior center, another group was distributing something that didn't quite fit amid the card games and daily gossip: condoms. "You're giving out condoms," 82-year-old Rose Crescenzo said with a wistful smile, "but who's going to give us a guy?"

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Study: Seniors Prefer to Exercise Alone

Older people would rather exercise alone than be surrounded by a bunch of youthful hard bodies in Spandex, suggests a study that examined how group fitness appeals to people of different ages.

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Rutgers' Senior Prepare for Final Game

They are the players who have embodied Rutgers' transformation from a perennial sad-sack into one of college football's most compelling turnarounds.

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While senior citizens still find time to go the neighborhood senior center in Richmond, Virginia, to play dominoes, or dance, or just mingle among others, their discussions are now tainted by bankruptcy laws as they struggle to come to terms with the effects of the recent economi …

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"LAP DOG MATCH GAME" RNC) today launched the Lap Dog Match Game at lapdogs.gop.com to help Americans hold House Democrats accountable for their votes as President Obama's and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care experiment makes its way to the House floor.

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When you hear I'm from the government and I'm here to help....RUN FOR YOUR LIFE........

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It appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.

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A report on one aspect of "Middle Ageing" today.

One aspect of attaining "middle age" that affects many of us, (or should I say "afflict?") is that of exercise. Physical exercise. The application of healthy, strengthening, conditioning, physical exercise designed and useful for the benefit of middle agers.

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Is NSPD-51 and HSPD-20: National Emergency Illegal?

President Obama declared a "National Emergency" today, October 24, 2009, because of the Swine Flu, but can that declaration lead to the U.S.

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Public Health Agency of Canada's updates on H1N1 and seasonal flu

H1N1 Frequently Asked Questions Information on the H1N1 Flu Virus and Individuals with Chronic Medical Conditions Information on Seniors and the Flu Virus (Seasonal Flu and H1N1 Flu) Information on Children Less Than Five Years of Age and the H1N1 Flu Virus Informatio …

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The flu vaccine debacle...past is prologue.

According to a report in the American Journal of Epidemiology, from 1979 to 2001 there was an annualized mortality rate of 41,400 from seasonal influenze in the United States.(1).

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The claims are correct.

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No one ever went broke underestimating political cynicism, but these days even we can't keep up: On Wednesday, President Obama announced that he wants to send every American senior a $250 check.

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No COLA for seniors, but what about Congress?

As Social Security recipients received official word yesterday that 2010 will be the first year without an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) since it went into effect in 1975, the other word --- stimulus --- continues to appear on other pages of newspapers, notes Grump …

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"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die." Robert Reich

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$250 being awarded to seniors by President Obama. Good or bad? (Poll)

The president has signed the order to give each senior $250 this year to help them along.

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Half of it will come from massive cuts in Medicare Advantage, while the other half will be generated by new taxes on high-end insurance, higher income taxes, and new levies on drugs and innovative medical devices.

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Older Americans who buy health insurance on their own could pay nearly 50% more in premiums under the Senate Finance Committee bill compared with other versions pending in Congress, an independent study says.

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Mr Prescott is 71, has almost completed 40 years as an MP - his UK school tour warns of a of the grim future for them and their children if no urgent action on climate change: "Go home, pester your parents, annoy people."

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Why is lying propogandist Betsy McCaughey on MSNBC?

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With a tennis court, a theater, a sauna and two swimming pools at their disposal, the residents of Cameron Grove, a senior housing community in Prince George's County, expected life to change when they moved into their new homes.

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I'm at that Awkward Age

Yesterday, I had a birthday, marking 59 years I have been on this earth. In the overall scheme of things, that's not even a flicker in the eye of the world. I don't live in the overall scheme of things, though, I live in the here and now.

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Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.

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Senior citizens are putting the Democratic Party's 2010 election prospects and their health care reform proposals on a collision course.

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Congressional Republicans are expressing outrage over freshman Rep. Alan Grayson's suggestion on the House floor Tuesday night that the GOP health care plan amounts to little more than "don't get sick" -- and if you do, "die quickly."

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Last week, I had to do one of those triple-takes at the TV screen. There was Dick Morris complaining to Sean Hannity about how the Democrats were going to cut back Medicare spending by $500 billion.

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Minnesota to Add 30K to Rolls of Uninsured

As a result of Minnesota's continuing failure of will in dealing with its budget deficit, the General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program has been eliminated.

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It has been frustrating to watch Republican leaders posture as the vigilant protectors of Medicare against health care reforms designed to make the system better and more equitable.

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