A new book treats old age, or ‘gerontocracy,’ as the central crisis of modern politics. The framing obscures more than it explains.
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Posted inBooks, Health Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Death with Indignity
How Medicare and other federal subsidies rope the elderly into painful, futile, and costly end-of-life care.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2014
Discounted Seniors
Future waves of retirees need help saving now. If they get it, they’ll be a boon, not a burden.
Posted inBooks, Health Care, Magazine, November/December 2014
The American Way of Dying
How our refusal to face up to the realities of aging and mortality causes needless suffering.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2013
Mail Models
How letter carriers might save your grandma.
Posted inGovernment, Health Care, July/August 2012, Magazine
No Place Like Home
An innovative foster care program for disabled vets points the way to solving two of the nation’s greatest challenges at the same time.
Posted inHealth Care, Magazine, November/December 2011
The Cure
The politics of debt have gotten so insane that both parties are on the verge of gutting Medicare. The moment might be right to actually fix it.
