AARP Eye Center
An update from AARP Arkansas' Pat Jones:
New research out of the Harvard School of Public Health today says just over half of Americans think health care in the U.S. may not be as good as other nations. And when it comes to costs, America received less than stellar grades with just 40 percent of Republicans, 19 percent of Democrats and 22…
New report out today from Divided We Fail that shows Generations X and Y are thinking about their future financial security - that they are not as prepared for it as they should be and they know it.
A bird dogging update from New York's Kristin Legere and Erin Mitchell:
I try to keep up with the activities of our colleagues across the nation and what's been coming up lately is a number of surveys about health care. A sample for you:
Divided We Fail is out with new ads on the nation's critical need for health care and financial security. The TV spot highlights a woman injured in a car accident but forced to continue working because health care costs are too high. Check it out below.
The budget process is creeping along in Washington. While this may seem like a snoozer to some, it is pretty important in terms of locking Congress in to spending and/or cutting. To this end, they've got to do this thing right. Doing it right means rejecting the deep Medicare and Medicaid cuts…
As I have for the other primaries, I did a little poking around in the exit polling from Mississippi. Where people are in Mississippi is pretty emblematic of where things are in the other states so far. According to the CNN exit polls, half of the Democratic and over 60 percent of the Republican…
Reuters reports that just one in four Americans are reading political blogs. The big readership, according to the poll is those who are 44 and older, with 26 percent of those over 63 saying they read political blogs. This is right on with what we know about those who are over 50. The 50+ group buys…
A report on AARP's presence in Maryland from State Director Joe DeMattos: