My Comments: We can argue ‘till the cows come home' about whether health care is a human right and how it should be paid for. Regardless of your feelings about it, what’s happening today is a necessary conversation. What we have now in America is a mess and changes are inevitable. If you follow any …
Category: HealthCare
No, undocumented immigrants don’t get Medicare for free
My Comments: The article that follows is part of my response to the current popular political phrase “Medicare For All”. Unfortunately, that’s an overly simplistic phrase that fails to properly reflect the underlying need for a total re-evaluation of our current health care delivery system here in the US. Yes, there’s a growing national discussion …
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Avoiding The Long-Term-Care Catastrophe
My Comments: It’s unlikely that I’ll be alive and well one day and dead the next. The more likely outcome is a decline that might first manifest physically and/or mentally, or both, followed by many months or years before the lights go out. How many of you are willing to live the rest of your …
…health benefits’ costs expected to rise 5% in 2020…
My Comments: The above title is missing a few words. The original reads as follows: “Employee health benefits’ costs are expected to rise 5% in 2020, new survey says”. Here’s my problem with this: if inflation numbers for 2019 are clearly less than 2%, then the costs associated with health benefits are increasing faster than …
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Generic Meds May No Longer Be A Good Idea
My Comments: this topic is way off base for me. But as a consumer of more generic meds than I'd like to admit, it made me pause. Maybe I should share it with my readers who also take generic drugs? It was written by Suzy Cohen, a registered pharmacist from Florida, who writes frequently about …
Best New Ideas in Retirement: #2 of 8
Last week I gave you the first of 8 new ideas in retirement. As I give you the 2nd, I must give full credit to the person responsible for writing it. His name is Joseph Coughlin and it appeared on July 17, 2019. Here’s a link to where I found it: https://tinyurl.com/yy5dro5u My wife and …
Retirement: Where You Live, and Medicare
My Comments: My wife and I rely on Medicare, along with a Medicare supplement plan, to pay for our current health care needs. If I have an issue that seems to require the advice and care of a physician, there is no hesitancy to seek that care. None. It never occurred to me this was …
Life Expectancy and Retirement
I’ve blogged before about the cost of healthcare in this country and how it compares with other industrialized nations across the planet. Of the top 25 such countries, we rank in the bottom 20% in terms of healthcare outcomes (longevity) and what we pay to achieve that dubious distinction. And our longevity numbers have dropped …
Should We Support Medicare for All?
Those of us on the left end of the political spectrum are hearing some of our prospective 2020 candidates talk about ‘Medicare for All”. I think that’s a mistake. Not because I think ‘universal health care’ is a bad idea, but calling it ‘Medicare for All’ carries with it the implication of a massive government …
Will You Need to Live in a Nursing Home?
Not to make too fine a point about this, but I don’t want that to be my fate. But it very well might be. I’ve talked about the three phases of retirement: the GO-GO years, the SLO-GO years and the NO-GO years. My mother had Alzheimer’s and lived in a nursing home for the last …
Helping Define Your Financial Future 