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Deficit battle won't cause fight between old and young

2011-11-22T08:30:14Z

(Reuters) - Now that the Super Committee has ground to a halt, the threatened "sword of Damocles" is poised to slash $1.2 trillion in federal spending. As we move to this next phase of the budget wars, deficit hawks will rev up one of their most phony arguments -- namely, that protecting entitlement programs rewards the old at the expense of the young.

The debt ceiling deal last summer calls...

AARP Raises Insurance Costs for Employees

2010-11-05T13:55:50Z

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Medicare and AARP health insurance: What you need to know

2010-11-29T15:35:46Z

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Medicare anti-fraud bills backed by AARP

2010-11-02T12:43:41Z

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AARP Report Finds Largest Brand Name Drug Price Spike in Eight Years While General Inflation Remains Near Zero

2010-10-27T06:54:24Z

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Truth From Americans On Health Insurance Reform

2010-09-21T12:29:03Z

A recent article post in the Wichita Eagle by the state President of AARP in Kansas, titled "How health care reform law might affect you" reflects on the changes occurring to individual, family, and the self employed in America.

However, the comments posted by United States citizens tell a different story about how Americans really feel about health insurance reform. Overwhelmingly citizens disagree with the decision to put Obama Care in to law.

spasmcreek wrote on 4/20/2010 4:3...

New health care law has benefits for seniors

2010-04-02T08:45:15Z

Health care reform bill a first step for keeping seniors in their homes longer

A clear goal of the new health care reform law: increased access to home-based care.

Last month's health care law contained some benefits for the nation's older population. It provided long-term care options to allow more seniors to stay in their current homes rather than seek institutionalized care, and called for more publicly available information about nursing homes.

Mos...

Doctors, AARP support new health overhaul bill

2010-06-26T03:15:20Z

AMA, AARP support revised health care overhaul bill; AMA calls it step toward real reform

The nation's largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens' lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation.

James Rohack, president of the Ameri...

Failure of health care overhaul will add more woes

2010-04-16T07:07:09Z

If health overhaul fails, look for spiraling premiums, more uninsured, skimpier Medicare

What could be worse than health care overhaul? No health care overhaul.

It's anybody's guess whether President Barack Obama's health remake will survive in Congress.

But there's no doubting the consequences if lawmakers fail to address the problems of costs, cove...

No health care overhaul will bring more problems

2010-04-16T07:07:04Z

What could be worse than health care overhaul? No health care overhaul.

It's anybody's guess whether President Barack Obama's health remake will survive in Congress.

But there's no doubting the consequences if lawmakers fail to address the problems of costs, coverage and quality: surging insurance premiums, more working families without coverage, bigger out-of-pocket bills, a M...

What's worse than health care overhaul? No changes

2010-04-16T07:07:09Z

What could be worse than health care overhaul? No health care overhaul.

It's anybody's guess whether President Barack Obama's health remake will survive in Congress.

AARP pushes for easier access to Ind. home care

2010-04-16T07:52:34Z

AARP pushing Indiana legislators for easier access to home care services for seniors

Gladys LaBoy has taken care of her 84-year-old husband, Adelo, since he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2002. The 71-year-old Indianapolis woman helps Adelo get dressed, feeds him meals, helps him to the bathroom and stays wi...

Who wins, who loses in Senate health bill

2010-04-16T08:13:56Z

The little town of Libby, Mont., isn't mentioned by name in the Senate's mammoth health care bill, but its 2,900 citizens are big winners in the legislation, thanks to the influence of Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.

After pushing for years for help for residents, many of whom suffer from asbestos-related illnesses from a now-closed mineral mining operation, Baucus inser...

PhRMA Statement on Misleading Reports About Price Growth

2010-10-24T09:17:42Z

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Baucus touts reform to AARP members

2010-04-16T10:32:39Z

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus told AARP members Tuesday that those who are worried that a health care overhaul would hurt their government benefits should know that even Medicare recipients would be helped under his plan.

The Montana Democrat is leading a Senate panel with two other D...

AARP tells Obama: No health plan endorsement yet

2010-04-16T10:52:53Z

A group usually seen as one of Barack Obama's allies in the health care debate — AARP — says the president went too far Tuesday when he said the seniors lobby had endorsed the legislation pending in Congress.

AARP is sensitive to the issue because polls show that Medicare beneficiaries are worried their health care program will be cut to su...

AARP Wins One With Pharma Pledge on Medicare Doughnut Hole

2010-10-24T09:57:01Z

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PhRMA Statement on AARP Report

2010-10-23T23:04:34Z

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Medicare Part B Premium Staying Flat for 2009

2010-10-23T19:13:50Z

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Money, ads give health care top political billing

2010-04-16T14:44:28Z

Coalitions to spend at least $60 million on ads pushing top billing for universal health care

Health care is returning as a campaign issue, with special interest and advocacy groups preparing to spend at least $60 million to push politicians to embrace universal access to medical coverage.

The efforts, one by a coalition of labor and liberal groups and another by AARP, also include direct appeals to the presidential co...

A Union, a Small Biz Group and AARP Walk Into a Hospital

2010-10-23T19:11:02Z

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McCain, Huckabee court seniors

2010-09-10T06:41:01Z

John McCain, Mike Huckabee Promise Seniors They'll Slow Rising Health Care Costs

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.

"Our job is to make it affordable a...

John McCain, Mike Huckabee promise seniors they'll slow rising health care costs

2010-09-10T06:40:59Z

"Our job is to make it affordable and available and not set government mandates and big government programs," McCain said at a forum sponsor...

NASCAR Gordon Sponsor Auto Racing

2010-10-28T06:32:26Z

Rick Hendrick, right, owner of Hendrick Motorsports, announces the AARP and the AARP Foundation Drive to End Hunger will be the 2011 sponsor of Jeff Gordon's race car during a news conference at Hendrick Motorsports in

2010-03-27T15:01:08Z

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 16: Actor Jeff Bridges, AARP Magazine editor Nancy Perry Graham, actor Robert De Niro, actor Billy Crystal

Obama Holds Press Briefing

2010-06-25T22:34:43Z

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: (AFP OUT) White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs looks on as U.S. President Barack Obama arrives for a statement in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on November 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama in today's Daily Briefing thank...

Obama

2010-04-05T19:21:17Z

President Barack Obama, center, flanked by AARP Chief Executive Officer A. Barry Rand, left, and AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen, participates in an AARP tele-town hall on health care, Tuesday, July 28, 2009, in Washington

Obama Visits AARP

2010-04-05T19:33:03Z

WASHINGTON - JULY 28: (AFP OUT) United States President Barack Obama speaks during a "tele town-hall" meeting at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) headquarters to discuss his health care plan and its effects on senior citizens on July 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ob...