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...said, can cost $700 a month - far more than she can afford on her $42 pension check and $1,200 from Social Security. Those tiny bottles of glaucoma drops alone cost $95 every two weeks. She couldn't pay for them without the $400 he and his brother chip in every month. "If we were passing Medicare today," the man added, "we would never pass it without (including a benefit for) prescription drugs...
...said, can cost $700 a month--far more than she can afford on her $42 pension check and $1,200 from Social Security. Those tiny bottles of glaucoma drops alone cost $95 every two weeks. She couldn't pay for them without the $400 he and his brother chip in every month. "If we were passing Medicare today," the man added, "we would never pass it without [including a benefit for] prescription drugs...
Larry Puglia, manager of the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth fund, likes hospital companies Tenet Healthcare and HCA, the HMO firm United Healthcare as well as select financial services stocks, including fund company Franklin Financial Advisors. He also believes Starbucks will benefit from retirees with time on their hands--he's long decaf. His fund is 50% driven by age-wave considerations, which are the main driver at the Muhlenkamp Fund. Those two funds are one-stop investments for the trend. Other funds guided by shifting demographics include AIM Dent Demographic Trends, Fidelity New Millennium, Morgan Stanley 21st Century...
Shareholders are taking action on their own: yanking money from any company showing even a hint of trouble. The latest black-and-blue chip? The respected drug giant Johnson & Johnson, whose stock fell 16% following a report that the company was under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department over alleged manufacturing improprieties in Puerto Rico. The company denied any wrongdoing, but the market did not care. J&J's drop contributed 55 points to the Dow's Friday freak-out, and the company joins Merck & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb (which face sales-accounting questions...
...lines of space jellyfish advance, firing from the hip. Videogames have reached their fourth decade, and the Game On exhibition traces their development from the simple tennis contest Pong to cinematic role-playing games like Final Fantasy. But the show is not just a timeline of game genres and chip development (plus a chance to play Tomb Raider), it also tries to make you think. "Game On" - which runs at London's Barbican Centre throughout the summer and in mid-September moves to Edinburgh, then on to continental Europe, the U.S. and Japan - is divided into sections: games families, making...