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Readers Offer Solo Agers Support and Reflect on Ancestors

KFF Health News

In 2010, I created the First Friday Ideas Salon. Recently, I became interested in the issue of how retirees whose professions defined their persona can, after age 80, as a “senior senior,” continue to be a person of substantiality. I live in Los Angeles with famously poor public transportation.

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Will anger at health insurers spur action? Democrats pessimistic

The Hill

Democrats are pessimistic that Congress will enact new rules around the health insurance industry, even as they try to appear responsive to growing calls for reform following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. health system, and insurance companies specifically. health system, and insurance companies specifically.