Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...factor for every retiree is health care. You can eat right and exercise, but illness and injury can still strike at any time. "The importance of having the right insurance in place can't be stressed enough," says Satovsky. Americans over age 65, of course, receive most of their health coverage through Medicare. But it doesn't cover prescription drugs and certain other expenses. And if you eventually need nursing-home care, you can get coverage through Medicaid--but only after you've spent almost all your own money...
...Collins, 80, made only three annual payments before she needed the long-term-care policy she bought at age 70. She suffers from Alzheimer's and is nursing home-bound. Without insurance her illness "would have completely depleted her savings," says her son Peter Collins. Long-term-care insurance, Peter figures, has saved the family at least $200,000. "We're a 'Thank you, God' story," he says when he thinks about the three payments of $2,500 each that bought this kind of security. "We're making out like bandits...
Monica flickers onto the screen, and she's young, all right, with the lingering baby fat and the uhs and you-knows of a teenager. But what the Senators mean by "young," she isn't. She's older than many women my age. She comes across as composed, self-possessed and unbroken. I guess that if Bill Clinton had it to do over again, knowing what he knows now, he wouldn't (although he has two years left, so I'd put no money on it). But Monica might. You don't have sex, or a reasonable facsimile...
...Communications Decency Act of 1996, was struck down by the Supreme Court. The Child Online Protection Act is a narrower law, focused on commercial websites that don't restrict access to minors. It spares sites from prosecution if they require visitors to provide credit-card numbers or proof, via age-verification programs, that they're adults...
...sites. Trouble is, the new law is so broad it would let prosecutors go after socially useful, nonpornographic websites aimed at adults. A site operator who testified that he fears prosecution runs the Sexual Health Network, which provides information about sexuality to the disabled. And the credit-card and age-verification defenses go only so far. Both are costly to implement--beyond the budget of many websites--and strip away visitors' anonymity. The founder of PlanetOut, a site directed at gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people, said traffic would plunge if users had to identify themselves...