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Doctors Get New Recommendations For Diagnosing Disabilities
A major pediatricians’ group is issuing new guidelines for physicians diagnosing intellectual and other developmental disabilities. In a clinical report published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its recommendations, which were first released in 2006. Specifically, the new report…
Docs, drug companies, insurers drive up Medicare costs
As one of an estimated 78 million baby boomers in this country, I was delighted to hear that Medicare’s Hospital Trust Fund won’t run out of money until 2030 — 13 years later than projected in 2009, the year before Congress passed…
Why Is It So Hard for Employers to Fill These Jobs?
America has a deficit of workers. Willing workers. Capable workers. Skilled, or at least semi-skilled workers, who can do a job and do it well. There are at least one million jobs that go begging day after day if only…
Your Retirement: Do you have a suitable allocation strategy for receiving your RMD’s?
Let me start by saying the means and tactics used to accumulate retirement resources are often quite different than the measures used in the distribution of those same dollars to meet your retirement income needs. When it comes to making sure…
The Social Security Trust Funds Have Always Been ‘Dry’
The Social Security Trust Funds (SSTF) are not ‘running dry’: they have always been dry. SSTF has no good place to park its assets: those assets would exceed anything the stock market could handle, and would thereby make SSTF a…
The Doctor Will See You Now: Pager Reimagines House Calls for the 21st Century
Sometimes, technology has a funny way of propelling us forward with ideas from the past. That’s certainly the case with Pager, a new company whose app enables users to schedule in-home appointments with physicians. Currently available in New York City,…
Social Security Disability: How Some Couples Can Get More Money in Retirement
Millions of Americans rely on Social Security disability benefits to help make ends meet after a debilitating injury or illness. But one key question that people on disability face is what will happen with their benefits after they retire. The…
Retirement: More Boomers Head Overseas for Cheap Living
Despite the economic doldrums of the past few years, many baby boomers are able to retire well, finding that they can live a very comfortable lifestyle on less money than anyone had thought possible. In fact, some boomers are even…
Don’t let your 401(k) retire before you do
A growing number of retirement savers who consistently participate in 401(k) plans are putting their money in target-date funds. Target-date funds invest in a mix of stocks, bonds and other assets based on your age and the date that you…
HEALTHBEAT: Study says house calls for the frail save Medicare money gov’t project under way
Ten or 12 times a year, Beatrice Adams’ daughter would race her frail mother to the emergency room for high blood pressure or pain from a list of chronic illnesses. Then Adams found a doctor who makes house calls, and…