Welcome to 55 and Better

Grandmother was a Suffragette...

   On January 18, 1892, at the age of 77, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) resigned as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She believed this farewell speech, which she delivered before the Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate, "the best thing I have ever written." Susan B. Anthony didn't like it much at first--it contained too little on the vote, which had become her central focus--but she later called it "the strongest and most unanswerable argument and appeal ever made by mortal pen or tongue for the full freedom and franchise of women." (Not for Ourselves Alone - Ward, Burns)

Welcome to 55 and Better

The News is Getting Better

Time to Unwrap November

Welcome to 55 and Better

The "55 and Better" series focuses on the issues that effect everyone sooner or later. With that in mind, it is important that we join together in tackling the problems and looking for the solutions as we plan for the future. All of us have inherited a system including Medicare and Social Security from those who have fought the "good fight," now it remains up to us to continue the promise so that the years after 55 will be even better.

This Battle Is For You!

A Brief History Of Social Security

In the long fight to win retirement security for average Americans, there have been many soldiers that came to heed the call. The “Poor Laws” made the voyage to our shores with the early settlers, and gave birth to the many new ideas that would one day bring Americans a program that worked, Social Security. Democracy’s great friend, Thomas Paine, published the pamphlet “Agrarian Justice” that proposed an inheritance tax that would fund 10 pounds sterling to be paid to those over 50 as a hedge against the poverty of old age. In 1890 when Americans faced an economic collapse, an unsuccessful Ohio politician (pre-Diebold) entered the fray.

Pirate or Patriot? Meet Jacob Coxey.

Welcome to 55 and Better

The "55 and Better" series focuses on the issues that effect everyone sooner or later. With that in mind, it is important that we join together in tackling the problems and looking for the solutions as we plan for the future. All of us have inherited a system including Medicare and Social Security from those who have fought the "good fight," now it remains up to us to continue the promise so that the years after 55 will be even better.

BIG PHARMA SCAM: Medicare Prescription Part D

(Survival inside a doughnut-hole )

It's rather difficult to discuss Medicare Prescription Part D since seemingly there are no government or agency officials willing or able to provide a clear explanation as to exactly how the scam is supposed to benefit seniors.

"Cutting drug costs for seniors" is not an explanation is it? It’s a campaign slogan.

How does it work? Is there an official explanation? Why not?