About a month ago, I wrote about whether or not it would be prudent to continue your health insurance coverage under COBRA in the event of a layoff. Today I read that part of President Obama’s forthcoming healthcare reform plan is sure to include a provision that requires insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.
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On Monday, January 26th, over 65,400 jobs were cut from several companies inside the U.S. It’s being called “Bloody Monday,” and those who lost their jobs face a tough decision: whether or not to continue their families’ healthcare plan under COBRA. If you have recently been laid off, or you think it may be coming, [...]
Today, more and more Americans are over the age of sixty-five. About ten percent of baby boomers are now over sixty-five and this number is rapidly growing. Over the next twenty years, more than twenty percent of Americans will be over the age of sixty-five.
By using the medical techniques that have been developed over the last half century, geriatric medical care can be offered to those over sixty-five at a lower cost and more efficiently. Finding how to best utilize geriatric resources is imperative, because it is assumed that there will be too few trained specialists in the future.
