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Healthcare Reform Upheld: What It Means for Latinos

Posted on 07/11/2012 by | Washington D.C. | Comments

Personal Health | Your LifeThe Supreme Court has decided. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains in effect and now both government and health care providers are focusing on continuing its implementation. At AARP, we supported health care reform because the law, better known as the Affordable Care Act, offers numerous protections that benefit millions of Americans who had no access to affordable health insurance. But what does it means for Latinos? It provides access to healthcare benefits and coverage previously unavailable. Once the law …

Is Sheldon Adelson a Modern Version of W. Clement Stone?

Posted on 06/29/2012 by | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsIn striking down major portions of federal campaign finance law  in 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the floodgates for unlimited “independent” expenditures on behalf of presidential candidates. As long as the groups doing the spending — and the donors that bankroll them — don’t directly coordinate their efforts with the candidates they’re backing, the Court said, the sky’s the limit. The result has been a record-shattering flood of TV and radio commercials, Internet ads, robocalls and other persuasive efforts …

New Hampshire Retirees: Color Their Anger Green

Posted on 06/20/2012 by | Politics | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsSusan Milligan is visiting six Election 2012 battleground states to talk with 50-plus voters for a report that will be published in the September issue of the AARP Bulletin. She posted this from New Hampshire. Residents of the RiverWoods retirement community in Exeter, N.H., have seen plenty of political campaigns in their time, but there’s one thing these days that seems to bother them more than anything else: the idea that elections have turned into auctions. Take Mary Remensnyder, 79, …

7 Ways to Avoid Conflict Over Grandparent Visitation

Posted on 03/23/2012 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeThe bond between a grandparent and grandchild can be incredibly strong. There is something special about that skipped-generation relationship. But sometimes family conflict between parents and grandparents can keep grandchildren from seeing their grandparents. This was apparently the situation in a recent Alabama grandparent visitation court case that rose all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Big Money Taints the Political Process

Posted on 01/19/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

PoliticsOlder Americans frown on the influence of big money on the presidential campaign. By overwhelming majorities, they think limiting the amount of money campaigns can spend would improve the political process. They say those who pay for attack ads should be publicly disclosed, as should outside groups that spend money on campaigns. They are an idealistic lot. In reality, millions of dollars are flooding into primary states to buy negative TV ads, finance suspicious robo-calls and pay for misleading mail …

The Takeaway: DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Weigh Health Care Law; Federal Pensions Face Major Shortfall

Posted on 09/29/2011 by | Brooklyn, NY | Comments

News RoundupsU.S. Department of Justice asks Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the individual health insurance mandate, a key part of Barack Obama’s health care reform law … Retirement plans for veterans, members of Congress and other federal employees cost the U.S. government almost as much as the Social Security system.

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