• The Affordable Care Act Expands Prevention Coverage for Seniors
    What the ACA means for Medicare recipients
    The Affordable Care Act—the health insurance reform legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010—will help make prevention affordable and accessible for all Americans, including those enrolled in Medicare.
  • Presidential Proclamation on the 45th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid
    “No American should be one illness away from financial ruin.”
    When President Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law on July 30, 1965, millions of Americans and about half our nation's seniors lacked health care coverage, unable to afford basic health care services or weather a medical emergency.
  • Medicare Glossary
    Help is just a couple of mouse clicks away . . .
    For those new to Medicare, it's easy to become confused by all the strange terms, initialisms, and acronyms. If that's the case for you, just visit the government's online Medicare Glossary for answers.
  • Health Care Reform: Not Ready to Be Discharged Yet
    Implications are myriad and poorly understood
    America's health care reform may be out of the ER, but its prognosis remains sketchy. Passage of the historic 2,400-page legislation by no means ended the debate, say Wharton experts. It just splintered one massive question mark into many large new ones.
  • The Sticky Business of Life Settlements
    Policies are “banking on another person’s early demise”
    A life settlement is the sale of an existing life insurance policy to a third party. The buyer (or investor) continues the premium payments and collects upon the seller’s death. How much depends on the life expectancy of the insured: the sooner the seller dies, the more the investor makes. The Washington Post calls these “ghoulish products.”
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