Our generation was privileged to grow up with the most influential, most promising invention since the wheel. We watched its humble beginnings through snow, squiggles, and rolls on tiny monitors that took minutes to warm up, often hours more to “tune.” In those pre-clicker, pre-color days, Dad was in charge of the “rabbit ear” antenna,…
Exactly 60 years ago tonight – New Year’s Eve, 1944 – Lt. John McLaughlin was piloting a bomber called Andy’s Dandy’s in a group of 18 four-engine B-17s on a run over Germany. Target: Hamburg. Suddenly the sky went black with German fighters. McLaughlin estimated some 100 Messerschmitt 109s coming fast at 12 o’clock high….
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It was doomed before it ever began. Sadly, there are so many hidden disadvantages of Medicare Advantage plans. Like its predecessor, Medicare+Choice, the current Medicare “Advantage” system is a shimmering mirage of cheap co-pays, cheaper hospital stays, and the quaint notion that it’s “free of some anonymous Washington bureaucrat pushing you around.” At least that’s…
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