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Surveys Show The Boomers Drive U.S. Consumer Confidence...      But They Still Remain Wealthiest Consumer Group.
   New Book Also Released by Founders of the Boomer Project: Retailers Remain Focused on Younger Age Groups, Despite Boomer Wealth, Spending and Attitudes. The Baby Boom drives U.S. consumer confidence more dramatically than any other generation, remains the most affluent spending group, but is increasingly ignored by the nation's marketers and retailers as it ages, according to two national surveys and the findings of a new book released today by the Boomer Project.
   According to the Department of Labor's Consumer

Expenditure Survey, America's 78 million Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964 outspend other generations by an estimated $400 billion each year on consumer goods and services. They remain the largest, wealthiest and most influential consumer group in the United States. And, perhaps even more importantly, their opinions and beliefs about the direction of the U.S. economy drive national consumer confidence scores, according to the Boomer Project, the nation's leading authority on marketing to today's Boomer Consumer, based on its new analysis of research among more than 7,000 consumers. This analysis represents the first major finding from a new strategic partnership between the Boomer Project and BIGresearch, the Worthington, Ohio-based consumer intelligence firm that helps companies from Wal-Mart to Wall Street keep pace with changing consumer behaviors.

Why Doctors Refuse The Clients On Medicare...
   Many people, just as they become eligible for Medicare, discover that the insurance rug has been pulled out from under them. Some doctors often internists but also gastroenterologists, gynecologists, psychiatrists and other specialists are no longer accepting Medicare, either because they have opted out of the insurance system or they are not accepting new patients with Medicare coverage. The doctors’ reasons: reimbursement rates are too low and paperwork too much of a hassle.
   When shopping for a doctor, ask if he or she is enrolled with Medicare. If the answer is no, that doctor has opted out of the system. Those who are enrolled fall into two categories, participating and nonparticipating. The latter receive a lower reimbursement from Medicare, and the patient has to pick up more of the bill.
   Doctors who have opted out of Medicare can charge whatever they want, but they cannot bill Medicare for reimbursement, nor may their patients. Medigap, or supplemental insurance, policies usually do not provide coverage when Medicare doesn’t, so the

entire bill is the patient’s responsibility.
   The solution to this problem is to find doctors who accept Medicare insurance — and to do it well before reaching age 65. But that is not always easy, especially if you are looking for an internist, a primary care doctor who deals with adults. Of the 93 internists affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, for example, only 37 accept Medicare, according to the hospital’s Web site.
   Two trends are converging: there is a shortage of internists nationally — the American College of Physicians, the organization for internists, estimates that by 2025 there will be 35,000 to 45,000 fewer than the population needs — and internists are increasingly unwilling to accept new Medicare patients.
   In a June 2008 report, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an independent federal panel that advises Congress on Medicare, said that 29 percent of the Medicare beneficiaries it surveyed who were looking for a primary care doctor had a problem finding one to treat them, up from 24 percent the year before. And a 2008 survey by the Texas Medical Association found that while 58 percent of the state’s doctors took new Medicare patients, only 38 percent of primary care doctors did, and they say the future is not looking much better.

           Community Public Broadcasting Launches Multi-Media Websites and Online
      Interactive Television Channel America's New Seniors, The Boomer Generation.
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                     The Oregon Nation website at...     http://www.oregonnation.org
These Multi-Media websites and online Television channel were created to serve as a news, information and organizational resource for todays senior citizens. At over 75 million plus the baby boom generation represents one of the largest voting groups in the country. Yet the gains made by our parents and grandparents in the 60s have not been maintained because of our failure to organize and fight for the rights of our common interests. These websites use the best of todays communication technologies enabling everyone with access to a computer to share their voice and become part of the process that is directing our generations future. The Interactive features of our websites allows concerned citizens from all over the country to share their opinions, identify the common issues and work to create the solutions we need to meet the challenges of the day. Join us in this effort to find a common voice for the goals that future
generations can see as a legacy we all can be proud of and return our coutry to our children and not the special interests
groups that have hijacked our Democracy. We can't afford to leave our futures in the hands of people the likes of B.P.

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The Boomer Nation Live...   Interactive Television
Host/Moderator...   Jeffrey Stevens:
Employs CPB's "State of the Art" Communications Technologie to provide an Internet based Interactive Broadcast Network. Through the use of Emails, WebCams, Phones and Video Conferencing Chat Rooms to provide a forum that lets the viewers be part of the show. Be part of exploring the solutions Seniors need to address todays issues and meet the challenges we face as idividuals, as a society and as a generation.
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Every Wednsday 10:00am To Noon...
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Every Wednsday 10:00am To Noon...
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