ELF News Archives

January 2003

- Largest age bias settlement hits $250M -
California's state retirement system will pay an estimated $250 million to settle claims that firefighters, police and other law officers had their disability benefits unfairly reduced based on their age.
USA Today 01/31

- Nursing home settles suit with relatives of woman for $800,000 -
Relatives of an elderly woman who they say was raped and repeatedly assaulted by other patients in a now-defunct city nursing home have settled a lawsuit against the business for $800,000.
Baltimore Sun 01/30

- Bush Gets Resistance on Medicare Plan -
President Bush ran into GOP and Democratic resistance to his Medicare reform proposal Wednesday
Orlando Sentinel 01/30

- Lawmakers seek rise in Medicare payments -
More than two-thirds of the members of the House are pushing to send more money to Medicare providers even though the White House has shown reluctance to approve a huge provider spending package.
Washington Times 01/29

- The Model for Real Medicare Reform: State of The Union Response -
In his State of the Union speech President Bush advocated major reform of the financially troubled Medicare program.
Heritage Foundation 01/29

- Learning the facts of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia -
Those who worry they may have Alzheimer’s disease or dementia probably aren’t afflicted with either, two Torrance Memorial Medical Center physicians agree. Daily Breeze 01/29

- Weighing the risks of Social Security reform -
Is the stock market too risky for retirement savings? Only if you believe the opponents of President Bush's proposal to reform Social Security with personal retirement accounts. Fortunately, history is not on their side.
Washington Times 01/24

- Learning the facts of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia -
Those who worry they may have Alzheimer’s disease or dementia probably aren’t afflicted with either, two Torrance Memorial Medical Center physicians agree. Daily Breeze 01/29

- Weighing the risks of Social Security reform -
Is the stock market too risky for retirement savings? Only if you believe the opponents of President Bush's proposal to reform Social Security with personal retirement accounts. Fortunately, history is not on their side.
Washington Times 01/24

- Successful aging: focus on seniors offset by media bias -
I have noticed many more newspaper and magazine articles about aging. Does that mean we “old folks” are finally getting our due?
Daily Breeze 01/23

- Study: Aging spouses diverge on love and sex -
Love and sex are more important to a happy marriage for men in their late 50s and early 60s than at any other time in their lives, a new survey says. Washington Times 01/23

Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Sixty-one percent of workers expect to work for pay during their 'retirement' years. Top reason: They enjoy work and want to stay involved.
USA Today 01/22


- Misguided drug plan -
West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise wants a Canadian-style system to control pharmaceutical prices. Washington Times 01/20

- AP: Rove Committed to Reform -
Rove can tick off on his fingers the sponsors of every House and Senate bill to overhaul Social Security, and what percentage of Social Security taxes each would divert to individual retirement accounts. Cato Institute 01/19

- Bed-blocking figures fall to two-year low -
The number of beds taken up in Scottish hospitals by elderly patients with nowhere else to go is at its lowest level since September 2000 London Times 01/18

- Senate told it must act on Social Security -
The Social Security system will require benefit cuts, tax increases or a higher retirement age to remain viable, regardless of whether workers are allowed to put some of their payroll taxes into personal investment accounts, Congress' investigative arm reported yesterday. Washington Times 01/16

- Sen: No Social Security Change This Year -
A key Democratic ally of the White House on Social Security reform and personal accounts said Tuesday that an overhaul is unlikely this year. Baltimore Sun 01/14

- Bush Planning Social Security Benefits for Mexicans -
President G.W. Bush has already expressed a strong desire to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal Mexican aliens. Covenant News 01/07

- Siphoning off Social Security -
If top officials at the State Department and Social Security Administration have their way, up to $345 billion — or more — could be siphoned from the Social Security "trust fund"... Washington Times 01/09

- Social Security no soft cushion -
Allan Wikman knows the pluses and minuses of life on Social Security. Washington Times 01/08

- America's biggest crook -
Congressmen tell us that our Social Security taxes go into a trust fund to pay for future retirement pensions. That is a baldfaced lie. World Net Daily 01/02

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