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Opportunity for Help with Medicare Cost Sharing Ends Soon
March 12th, 2013 
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Nearly 20,000 veterans die waiting for benefits in 2012!
February 19th, 2013 news-admin Tweet Angela Brauer of Albuquerque KOAT filed this staggering report. Thousands of veterans and veterans’ families are speaking up about the delay in receiving compensation. At the end of the fiscal year in September 2012, nearly 20,000 veterans had died waiting for a variety of benefits. Some of them had been waiting decades. While those [...]
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Elderly Depression Linked To Dementia Risk And Mild Cognitive Impairment
February 6th, 2013 news-admin Tweet Medical News Today is reporting that; seniors with depression may have a higher risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, researchers from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, reported in Archives of Neurology, Online First . The authors had gathered and examined data on a group of Medicare recipients in the U.S. who were [...]
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Most of Retirement Savings Will Go to Pay Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses
February 4th, 2013 news-admin Tweet Per a recent article to AARP members, in which they said; “You might think your medical costs will be taken care of once you qualify for Medicare. But you’ll quickly find that you’re still paying out of pocket, and probably paying much more than you expected.” Fidelity Investments, which has been tracking retiree health [...]
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January 4th, 2013 news-admin Tweet Aaron Glantz of California Watch posted an article that is of concern to veterans waiting on benefits to start. The VA’s inability to pay benefits to veterans before they die is increasingly common, according to data obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting, parent organization of California Watch. The data reveals, for the first [...]
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August 29th, 2012 news-admin Tweet Once it is time to put your parent or grandparent in a long-term assisted living or other care facilities you know you can’t be with them 24/7 to make sure they get the best care. The next best thing is to do research and be forewarn and forearmed with the information to determine which [...]
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Hospitals’ Readmission Rates Still too High, Government Says – Really???
August 8th, 2012 news-admin Tweet Have you ever tried to get a family member admitted through the ER of a hospital over the last few years to find you are are up against a brick wall called MEDICARE INSURANCE saying SURE???? If you haven’t a lot has changed over the last decade or so. Now there is no let’s [...]
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