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McCaskill
questions role of government and protection
of Seniors in Reverse Mortgages...U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill took the U.S. Senate
Special Committee on Aging on the road today
to examine how to better protect seniors and
taxpayers amid growing problems in the
reverse mortgage industry... At a field
hearing in the St. Louis area, McCaskill
heard from industry insiders and government
watchdogs about concerns with aggressive
marketing amid inadequate financial
counseling, taxpayer liability of
federally-insured reverse mortgages, as well
as a series of other issues...(click here to
read rest of story)
Technology companies and Healthcare
Providers partner to work toward Healthcare
Reform...President
Obama’s economic stimulus package encourages
the use of technology in our nation’s
healthcare system...For this area of
healthcare reform to become a reality, it
requires unique partnerships between
technology companies and healthcare
providers...(click here to read rest of
story)
Paralyzed Veterans get
'Ready to Roll' at the National Veterans
Wheelchair Games...More
than 600 veterans with disabilities have
signed-up to compete in the National
Veterans Wheelchair Games, taking place
July 13-18, 2009, in
Spokane, WA...Now in its 29th
year, the event has grown to become the
largest annual wheelchair sports event in
the world...(click here to read rest
of story)
AmerenUE launches $3
Million 'Clean Slate' Program for Low-Income
Elderly/Disabled Customers... AmerenUE today announced it is giving
$3 million to needy customers to
help them get a fresh start in managing
their utility payments...(click here
to read rest of story)
Judge Rules on SEIU
lawsuit...Home
Care consumers and workers jubilant over
order halting July 1st wage cut... Home care consumers and workers
reacted jubilantly upon hearing the news
that a U.S. District Court judge issued an
injunction ordering the state of California
to halt a proposed $2 an hour cut in wages
for the state's 440,000 home care workers...(click
here to read rest of story)
THCA on 2009
Legislative Session: Seniors'
Medicaid-financed Nursing Home Care requires
substantially more investment as population
ages, Care Needs grow...$60
Million Medicaid Funding boost merely
scratches surface in terms of meeting
Seniors' realistic needs...(click
here to read rest of story)
Rating
Attractiveness: Consensus among Women, not
Men...Hot
or not? Men agree on the answer...Women
don’t...There is much more consensus among
men about whom they find attractive than
there is among women, according to a new
study by Wake Forest University psychologist
Dustin Wood...(click here to read
rest of story)
Recession no damper on
Americans’ Vacation Travel Plans...The recession is apparently not
deflecting consumers’ vacation travel plans
this year, according to findings from a
national study conducted recently by a
research team led by Nancy McGehee,
associate professor of hospitality and
tourism management at Virginia Tech’s
Pamplin College of Business...(click
here to read rest of story)
Older
Doctors stay on job amid Primary Care
Shortage...The
shortage in primary care doctors is causing
older doctors to stay on the job while young
ones opt for specialties...In the U.S.,
there are at least 4,500 primary care
doctors older than 75, according to figures
from the Physicians Masterfile database
maintained by the American Medical
Association...(click here to read
rest of story)
Report: Health
Industry spends upwards of $1.4 Million A
Day on Lobbyists...In
a new report released today, the government
watchdog group Common Cause found that major
health care interests have spent upwards of
$1.4 million a day to lobby Capitol Hill s
o
far this year, the National Journal
reports...(click here to read rest of
story)
Obama leaves door open
to tax On Health Benefits...President
Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected the idea
of fully taxing Americans' employer-provided
health insurance benefits, but suggested he
might be persuaded to tax so-called Cadillac
coverage ... in the interest of a compromise
with Congress...(click here to read rest of
story)
Telemedicine Stroke
Program saves Woman...While
suffering a major stroke at her home near
Mena, Iva Sikes assumed the worst, not
knowing that a University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led telemedicine
program would provide her a complete
recovery...(click here to read rest
of story)
