New report on long-term medical care ranks Florida 44th in the nation

According to a new report, Florida ranks 44th in the U.S. for long-term care.

The AARP, the Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN Foundation have released a report titled, “A State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers.”

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Ryan’s budget plan would force seniors to spend most of their income on health care, analysts say

Following the Tuesday release of House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget resolution (PDF), senior groups and analysts have come out specifically against the proposed health care changes, saying seniors would pay twice as much for health care as they are now.

Experts at AARP hearing say questions raise bigger implications about tax code

Two panel experts were called by the health and oversight subcommittees of the House Ways & Means Committee at Friday’s hearing to investigate whether, based on its earnings, structure and business practices, AARP deserves to retain its nonprofit 503(c)4 tax-exempt status.

The GOP witness — William Josephson (PDF), a retired partner More…

Dems say AARP investigation is politically motivated, will reveal nothing

Reminiscent of New York Rep. Peter King’s recent Homeland Security Committee hearing investigating radical Islam in the Muslim-American community, Friday’s investigation of AARP, called by the oversight and health subcommittees of the House Committee on Ways and Means, have been denounced by Democrats on the committees as a More…

AARP: If Congress wants to take away our nonprofit status, it will have to change tax code

AARP, the GOP’s most recent scapegoat, has been preparing its defense strategy against attacks from Republicans that the nonprofit advocacy group for older Americans deserves to have its tax-exempt status stripped.

AARP sues U.S. housing department over reverse-mortgage policy

AARP, the largest advocacy group in the U.S. for retired persons, sued on Tuesday the Department of Housing and Urban Development for promoting policy changes that led to the foreclosure of seniors’ homes.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three surviving spouses of reverse-mortgage borrowers, who allege that More…

Vital programs for low-income seniors face harsh reductions in proposed budget cuts

The Obama administration has proposed cutting funding for programs that go directly to senior services in the 2012 proposed budget, meaning many older Americans may lose federal aid to help pay for things like heat, food and public transportation.

An analysis by the National Council on Aging highlights

Elderly voters the biggest push behind the GOP wave

The election post-mortems keep rolling in. Politico’s Byron Tau’s report on the remarkable shift in voting patterns among America’s oldest voters goes a long way to explain why last week’s contest became such a rout for Republicans. Voters over 65, he writes, favored Republicans by a 21-point margin after More…

American Crossroads and 60 Plus Keep Spending Big Before Midterms

Two of the largest conservative-leaning outside spending groups — American Crossroads and the 60 Plus Association — are stepping up their spending with new ad buys today, underscoring once again the shifting landscape – which I’ve written a story about today — in which outside groups are making more independent More…

‘Too Young Not to Work but Too Old to Work’

Last week, thousands of Americans who have exhausted their unemployment insurance — the 99ers, named after the maximum number of weeks of state and federal benefits — sent letters and petitions to Washington as part of a futile campaign to convince the Senate to pass a bolstered version More…