{"id":9395,"date":"2025-05-18T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2025-05-18T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:12:09","slug":"lets-celebrate-90-years-of-social-security-and-60-years-of-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/lets-celebrate-90-years-of-social-security-and-60-years-of-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Celebrate 90 Years of Social Security and 60 Years of Medicare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After a long career as an office manager in St. Louis, Debbie Haupt retired at age 60 so she could provide full-time care for her ailing husband. \u201cI had been planning to work at least until 68, maybe 70,\u201d she says, \u201cbut\u00a0<a title=\"what is parkinsons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/health\/conditions-treatments\/what-is-parkinsons-disease\/\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0had other ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, as an older American, Haupt could rely on another source of sustenance. \u201cSocial Security has been my lifeline,\u201d she says. \u201cI paid into it all those years, and when I badly needed the help, it was there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedicare is the best health insurance I ever had,\u201d she says. \u201cThe deductibles I had when I was on private insurance \u2014 I could never pay that much now. But Medicare is a godsend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think only old folks benefit from Social Security and Medicare?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Chappel points out in his 2024 book\u00a0<i>Golden Years<\/i>, people 65 and older aren\u2019t the only beneficiaries of these so-called old-age programs. Social Security and Medicare serve younger generations as well, sparing them from the financial challenges of supporting older family members and friends.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"aem-Grid aem-Grid--12 aem-Grid--default--12 \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI know my kids would help if they had to, but I don\u2019t want to make them do it,\u201d says Donna Dalrymple, 68, an AARP member in New Hampshire who is facing expensive treatments for blood cancer. \u201cWith\u00a0<a title=\"medicare part d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/medicare\/part-d-prescription-drugs\/\">Medicare [Part] D<\/a>, I can afford to control this cancer. I don\u2019t have to impose those costs on my family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/news\/assets\/images\/2022\/seal.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long career as an office manager in St. Louis, Debbie Haupt retired at age 60 so she could provide full-time care for her ailing husband. \u201cI had been planning to work at least until 68, maybe 70,\u201d she says, \u201cbut\u00a0Parkinson\u2019s\u00a0had other ideas.\u201d Fortunately, as an older American, Haupt could rely on another source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1035,790],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","tag-medicare","tag-social-security"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9396,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions\/9396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}