[lbo-talk] AARP on security after 50

[westrich at miser.umass.edu]

The Wall St. Journal and the AP blurbed this AARP report on economic and health 
security after 50.  I thought I would include a link to the actual report. 
<http://research.aarp.org/general/beyond_50.html> 

One-third of disabled people over 50 have postponed health care because of 
cost.  This is an increase over previous surveys.  Also, as this is before a 
lot more state health spending cuts and private health insurance out-of-pocket 
expense increases this will undoubtedly be going up in further in the near 
future.  Not good news--while older people may not get the health care they 
need and actually suffer and die because of it--they can rest easy that at 
least our government is saving us from potential and non-existent threats.  

Anyway, a lot more info on economic and health security in nice glossy reports 
from the AARP on the site.

Jim

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;  
Am an attendant lord, one that will do  
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,  
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,  
Deferential, glad to be of use,          
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;  
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;  
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—  
Almost, at times, the Fool.  

  
I grow old 

 I grow old 

         
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. 

  T. S. Elliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"