Topic - AARP

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  User-friendly health plan summaries at risk

  Consumer groups are scrambling to salvage a popular provision of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that suddenly seems to be in question.

• Demise of Obama long-term care plan leaves gap

  It's the one major health expense for which nearly all Americans are uninsured. The dilemma of paying for long-term care is likely to worsen now that the Obama administration pulled the plug on a program seen as a first step.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Exemptions prove Obamacare too costly

  There are 1,372 reasons the Affordable Health Care Act, or Obamacare, is a bad idea. Why 1,372? Because that's the number of exemptions that have been given to unions, corporations and even the retirees association AARP by the Department of Health and Human Services.

• Study: Dads less likely to die of heart problems

  Fatherhood may be a kick in the old testosterone, but it may also help keep a man alive. New research suggests that dads are a little less likely to die of heart-related problems than childless men are.

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  GOP says Obama resorting to scare tactics

  President Obama said Tuesday that he may have to halt Social Security benefit checks in August if he and congressional leaders can't agree to raise the government's debt limit.

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  PALMISANO: Nailing Obamacare's rationing board

  With Medicare's trustees predicting the Medicare program will go bankrupt in 2024 - five years earlier than was projected before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - even Americans who strongly supported Obamacare have little choice but to acknowledge that Medicare must be reformed - and soon. While lawmakers continue to argue about the best way to protect this vital program for the seniors it serves and those who it has yet to serve, there is a growing bipartisan consensus that the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is one provision of the new health law that will do more to undermine the program than save it.

• Social Security changes off table; problems remain

  Congress is putting off changes to Social Security, but the massive retirement and disability program still faces long-term financial problems from an aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound.

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  House Republicans seek IRS probe of AARP

  AARP lobbied for the new health care law, and now it stands to profit, Republican lawmakers charged Wednesday as they called for the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether the powerful interest group deserves to keep its federal tax exemption.

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  FIELDS: Teen sexting

  Revolutions are always unpredictable, depending on the way always unpredictable people adapt to them. That's true of high-tech revolutions as well as revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and a lot of other places. Humans are curious creatures.

• Obamacare spurs AARP to raise premiums

  AARP's endorsement helped secure passage of President Obama's health care overhaul. Now the seniors' lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise, partly as a result of the law.

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  DuPont to stay on for 14 races with Gordon

  Sponsorship of Jeff Gordon's car was filled Thursday when longtime partner DuPont announced a three-year extension with the four-time NASCAR champion.

• Gordon in AARP 'Drive to End Hunger' campaign

  Rick Hendrick never panicked as the season stretched on and he still didn't have a sponsorship deal for Jeff Gordon.

• AP source: anti-hunger group to sponsor Gordon car

  Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will be sponsored next season by an anti-hunger campaign coordinated through the AARP Foundation.

• Social Security turns a frail 75

  Prospects are bleak for fixing Social Security's financial problems as the government retirement-insurance program celebrates its 75th anniversary this week.

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  Obama portrays GOP as lackeys

  President Obama on Monday aimed a new arrow at Republicans who he said are beholden to special interests, arguing that their expected filibuster this week of a new bill to rein in corporate spending on political ads is the latest in a line of votes in which the GOP has tried to protect special interests.

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