"The managed care companies would go after the healthy elderly, and the frail, old elderly would be left out to fend for themselves without adequate coverage, " she said.
An idea often floated in Congress to reduce spending on Medicare by raising the eligibility age for the federal health insurance program for the elderly from 65 to 70 years old would jack up costs per person for those seniors left in the program by 12 percent, if implemented.
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Their relationship illustrates another truth about Japan's aging society - the people who care for the very elderly are, by and large, old themselves.
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America's leaders in caring for the very elderly are the Veterans Health Administration (responsible for about 24m old soldiers) and giant health-care providers like Kaiser Permanente, with nearly 9m people on its books.
However, you can see it on the faces of elderly men who, too old to work, still come to Poovar each morning, just to be near the water.
How conspicuous the elderly were here, she thought, how openly old.
The new head of the Central Bank, Luis Diego Castellanos, an obscure elderly economist, is a close colleague of Jorge Giordani, the old-fashioned development planner who leads the economic team.
In a clever invention from screenwriter Eric Roth ("The Good Shepherd" and "Forrest Gump"), Queenie runs a caring home for the elderly, so Master Benjamin fits in reasonably well, though one old lady is disconcerted by his fondness for her granddaughter Daisy.
For the case of Uganda, not until a 4 year old Ambition for Health conceived the idea of establishing a multi-purpose facility to cater for elderly health and social needs, there has never been any such facility across East Africa.
Like many of China's impoverished elderly, she is a former farmer, too old to benefit from the booming economy that has swept the younger generation into China's factories, and passed over by a benefit system that is skewed in favor of urbanites.
An elderly Beowulf puts on his armor for one last hurrah, invoking the age-old duty of all chief executives, male and female: Be a mensch .
Although the principal group of victims was over 40 years old, divorced or widowed, disabled, and often elderly, everybody is at risk.
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