Medicare pays for less than 7% of dementia care. With dementia predicted to become much more prevalent, family savings are bound to suffer. [...]
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Safety net - storiesResidents in some states are especially vulnerable to federal budget cuts. Other states are safer. [...] By David Stookey, on July 30th, 2011  Ideas for allergy sufferers to avoid being triple-teamed by the growth of healthcare costs, budget deficits, and climate change. [...] By David Stookey, on July 29th, 2011
Many seniors don’t understand how much retirement savings they need, jeopardizing themselves and their kids. [...] By David Stookey, on July 18th, 2011
 There are money pits America needs to fill. There are money piles we might use. America needs to pay these obligations – or duck them. $14,350,000,000,000 Our national debt, most will agree, is too big for our national income to support. Slowing or stopping its growth means significantly cutting the federal deficit, currently $1.65 trillion [...] Most of us don’t realize how shaky most predictions are – and how useful they can still be. [...] Walking can cut older people’s risk of Alzheimer’s in half, yet another reason to choose a walkable neighborhood. [...] Pays $250,000 for retirement healthcare if you quit before 40 and start putting the pack-a-day price and other savings in the bank. [...] If the President’s bipartisan commission can’t agree on recommendations, what chance does Congress have to prevent our kids from drowning in debt? [...] Will our DC decision-makers protect us from the dangers economists predict from the next ten years’ budget deficits: rising interest rates, expensive imports, reduced services, higher taxes, and more? [...] Taking a personal cleaver to the US budget deficit goes a long way to educating us. [...] The conservative idea that for-profit enterprise will save us might work better if mixed with non-profit elements. [...] I’m told the federal deficit will start cramping my family’s financial situation soon. [...] Are there exaggerations, faulty logic, self-serving bias in predictions of environmental and financial troubles ahead? [...] |
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