Savvy Senior: What health care reform means for seniors

Savvy Senior: What health care reform means for seniors
DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: How will the new health care bill affect seniors? My wife and I both receive Medicare benefits and would like to know what we can expect.

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67 Responses to “Savvy Senior: What health care reform means for seniors”

  1. vette Says:

    one final to go and then I'm a senior! =D (318)

  2. ramanielsn abans Says:

    Love Tony’s choreography!!

  3. josh Says:

    being happy doesn't mean every thing's okay…it only means you've decide to see things beyond life's imperfections…

  4. lawyer froya Says:

    Someone in Iraq throwing their shoes at President Bush.

    Questions to start conversation. What if someone from America threw a shoe at Tony Blair, or Vladimir Putin? What if someone from America threw the shoe at Bush?

    An activity….get a really really big BALL of yarn. You hold the string and a ball of yarn and say your name and something about yourself. Then say the name of a friend in the classroom and throw the ball to that friend (hold your string). The friend then says her/his name and something about her/himself, keeps hold of a piece of the string and throws the ball of yarn. This goes on until everyone is holding the string……

    In the end…..The string should be somewhat tight. Everyone should be holding string.

    Now a discussion………talk about the what if's and decisions you make every second of every day. It should start out with someone waking up and being nice. (The way the 'web' of yarn you have is now, relaxed and easy to manage)

    The next step is to have one person give a good tug on the yarn. (That person is the designated, 'bad mood'.) That one person with a bad mood, tugged on the yarn and that tug likely was felt by all those around him. The same happens when you wake up in a bad mood.

    Every single decision you make, has an effect on everyone you 're in contact with.

    Then for fun……when you ball the yarn back up you have to go in reverse order. If Andrea started the yarn and threw it to Billy…..all the way to Yander and Zoey…..Zoey would wrap her area of yarn and throw the ball to Yander…..all the way back to Billy and Andrea…..bonus points if you can remember what was important to the person who threw the ball to you.

    (confused?) I hope I explained it well.

  5. moreck roge Says:

    Since this is a pre-existing condition there is a good chance that none of them will be willing to cover it.

  6. vit Says:

    hope you feel better soon. Usually post expiry just means slightly reduced efficacy.

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  10. hodall weidman Says:

    Any states that do not accept it should be removed from the US, and declared enemies of the US.

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  12. berg Says:

    Beautiful! Thank you for posting. I miss all my seniors I’ve loved and lost, and still grieve for them. We always adopt seniors; I made a decision years ago that I would take the dogs no one else wanted because they were “old”. Puppies are small and cuddly, but seniors and cuddly too, and forever loving. Please, all, consider adopting a senior – they have so much to give!!

  13. castof sch Says:

    I USED2 HAVE A HUGE CRUSH ON HER MAN(TEARS)

  14. huoringotl Says:

    Most Schools have Before and After School Care programs that extends to the school holidays – 'vacation care'

    Usually its an independant person/s/business that runs this program but in the school grounds and you still get CCB from centrelink for it too.
    Also some daycare centres have before, after and vacation care programs. I know of 2 close to me (I am on the gold coast) and know there would be more around the coast.
    They come in a small bus and pick the children up from school or drop them there in the moring and on the holidays they have them all day. Usually they provide some food as well, usually breakfast and afternoon tea.

    Get your yellow pages and look in the 'childcare centres' section and look for advertisments that have before & after school care programs AND also ring the school he will be attending and ask them what programs they have in place.

    Good luck and best of luck with returning to work

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    I am saddened that I cannot persuade you. For now your are free, and you have the ability to choose. But if you continue in this fashion, to choose conveience over self-reliance–over freedom, the day will come when your ability to choose will have been eroded away, and your children will be born into servitude. My assertion may be hard to understand, but history repeats, and those who do not learn from it are destined to repeat it.

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    Sronpop…..I was at that gig too…off the hook to say the least !

  19. leet Says:

    Teach them how to use search engines effectively, to get the info they want with the least possible tries. So many people stop trying to search for specific information because they don't know how to maximize their potential.

    For fun stuff, you could teach them how to find free game sites that aren't going to load their computers down with viruses.

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  22. jave surie Says:

    If I pay medical insurance for 20 yrs, and then oneday I have cancer – the insurance company can see my case is a BAD investment. They break their promise/contract with me under “pre-condition” because they are FOR PROFIT – greedy. Then I don’t have the financial fund for healthcare. Can’t get chemotherapy – get worse each day. Then I land in ER. I can’t pay ER cost, then that cost goes on everyone else premium. Insurance company don’t have to pay a cent b/c they are FOR PROFIT.

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  24. karwillone boyking Says:

    Remind them we can't balance budget on the backs of state employees & poor, and we're still waiting on property tax reform!

  25. cavan Says:

    Beautiful! Thank you for posting. I miss all my seniors I’ve loved and lost, and still grieve for them. We always adopt seniors; I made a decision years ago that I would take the dogs no one else wanted because they were “old”. Puppies are small and cuddly, but seniors and cuddly too, and forever loving. Please, all, consider adopting a senior – they have so much to give!!

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  35. fire Says:

    Just inform the seniors. Don't worry, you guys won't be doing too much tomorrow.

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