Imagine all those dry-walling years, those hammer swinging decades, those ER 48-Hour Shifts, and we Can All be Like these Fucking Murderer Rich Fucker “working” with no back, gut, neck or bone pains!

Cunts. From left: Tech executive Marjorie Zingle and Harvard Business School researcher Stephen Greyser say their jobs still excite them. Primatologist Jane Goodall is a model for others who want to keep working in their 80s.

Sometimes Fred Strnisa thinks about retirement. When he sees familiar names in the obituaries, or when the winter wind whips his upstate New York home, Strnisa, 81, wonders if maybe it’s time for him to stop working as a professor of semiconductor manufacturing technology at Hudson Valley Community College.

Then he quickly dismisses the thought. “I really enjoy what I’m doing more than I’d enjoy retirement,” he says.

A fucking LAWYER? ‘Why Stop?’ Meet the 80 and 90-Somethings Who Want to Keep Working

While a record number of younger workers in the U.S. have been quitting their jobs amid the Great Resignation, a number of older workers are staying put, with some working into their 80s and 90s. The reasons are varied: some don’t have the savings to retire, or need to stay on the payroll to keep receiving health insurance benefits. For others, it’s job satisfaction and the desire to stay mentally sharp that keeps them working.

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You want fucking bankers and other thieves like Larry Fink telling us that funding the fucking jews of Isra-Hell and jews of NaziLandiaUkroIdiocracy and the jews of AI-VR-MR-AR, all of that, that’s why WE need to forget the Social Security pittances and forget about medicare.

So, these fucking office jockeys, these overpaid “knowledge” workers or “therapists,” yep, they can work work work with their several million in the bank and $4 million dollar homes and Cadillac health care and all the disposable income to fly to Japan to study bonzai or some spa weekend yoga retreat in Baja.

Here, from the jewish mouth:

Sometimes, the disqualifier can be from the employer’s side. Older workers are not always appreciated, says Louise Aronson, geriatrician and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. “There are countries that have mandatory retirement ages, even as we have longevity,” she says. “That is insanity.” Some of the assumptions that underpin arguments against hiring older workers include the idea that they are slower and more expensive than younger workers.

Aronson argues that there are huge benefits to having people with different skill sets and of varying ages. “We know that older people are more likely to make the right decision when presented with information. They are more likely to have emotional intelligence. And, at work teams that have people of varying ages tend to be particularly productive,” she says.

Try those jobs, fucking dirty fools!

Given the wide variation in when specific cognitive, physical, “psychomotor” and sensory abilities decline,  some  white collar occupations are more vulnerable to age related performance deficits than some blue collar ones, says Anek Belbase,  lead author of a new  brief and working paper that describe the CRR’s findings. An airline pilot, for example, is likely to encounter more age related difficulties than a house cleaner, the researchers found.  (You can upload the ranking for all 954 here.)

To construct their index, Belbase and his colleagues started with information from the federal Occupational Information Network, a database which rates the importance of 52 different abilities for each occupation. Then they surveyed medical, psychological and occupational studies to identify which of the 52 decline by the early to mid 60s. Combining the two, they created a “Susceptibility Index’’ —a higher score means an occupation is more susceptible to age related declines before normal retirement age.

The focus on so many discrete abilities was crucial here. Research shows, for example, that “crystallized” cognitive abilities such as vocabulary can continue to increase into your 60s and 70s and that oral and written comprehension, as well as math skills, can be maintained throughout a career, Belbase says. That gives teachers and professors among the lowest susceptibility scores. (Of course, tenure helps, too, if you want to keep working.)

• The ability to work longer can be hampered by skills that decline with age.
• Declining physical skills – such as diminished strength and flexibility – are easy to spot and often associated with blue-collar jobs.
• But white-collar jobs may also require abilities that decline with age, including cognitive and fine motor skills.
• The analysis created an index measuring the reliance on skills that decline with age for over 900 occupations.
• The results show that while blue-collar jobs are more vulnerable to eroding skills, some white-collar jobs are vulnerable too, which can lead to earlier retirements.

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Human bodies have evolved, and the reason we haven’t gone extinct yet is because when we’re faced with an acute, life-threatening challenge, our body automatically activates this release of hormones. And what those hormones do as they flood your body is they increase your heart rate. They increase your breathing rate. They propel oxygenated blood to your large muscles quickly. … They galvanize fats and sugars from your storage areas of your body into the bloodstream to provide energy towards that ability to fight or flee. …

The problem in the modern world is … a lot of [stress] is simply everyday life: Coming home after night shift work and having to stay wide awake and vigilant so you don’t forget to get off your bus for the next bus to go home. Trying to get your kids up for school at five in the morning so you can also get to work. … This means that the stress hormones are chronically flooding your body. The fats and sugars that you catapulted into your bloodstream for energy are constantly flooding your body.

It means your heart rate is up, [and] like any other over-exercised muscle, you’ll start to get an enlarged heart. You’ll start to get hypertension from pushing so much blood through certain arteries and veins to get your heart rate going and your breathing going. If you were pregnant, you might lose your baby, because it’s actually probably more adaptive if you’re in fight or flight to not be carrying a baby. But even if you don’t lose the baby, you’ll shunt nutrients away from it because they can’t be spent on the growing baby. And so your baby may be born low birth weight or growth retarded because it hasn’t been well nourished in the womb.

On why middle- and upper-class “stress” isn’t the same

[More affluent people] can take vacations. They can hire people to do their housework or even order their food to be delivered. It’s not a relentless day in, day out. They still have many choices. They still have time to relax. They’re not dealing with the stereotypical racism aspect that also can activate this process. So the problem is “stress” is this very diffuse term. And we think of it as something you can just meditate your way out of or take a vacation or a break. Many people in our country can’t even take a break during working hours.

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Okay, I’ll pull this together with a local angle. I took my client (and myself) to a Medical Transportation orientation/sell thing. Yes, it was a free lunch.

Of ourse, the 12 who showed up were all over 69, and some were single, a few couples and then me — Curious Communist — and my client. Free halibut, man, or whatever.

And then the fear porn. Of course, the lady doing the pitch said she’s had to call a no politics rule for her presentations, because, she says, in the past, there were drag out red-blue arguments in past presentations (hmm, I doubt that).

While Gaza burns, while USA water is contaiminated, while we flood the world with guns and bombs and US outposts, and while we feed the Nazis in Ukraine and those other ones, the jews, in Murdered Stolen Raped Poisoned Maimed Palestine, we have this shit over and over with this fucking sicko country of capitalists and their media presstitutes and their PR firms, the lawyers and the revolving door fucking pigs of deceipt in politics sucking us dry.

Oh, that 5 percent inflation my fucking ass. Think 300 percent, and more on many items. Live in the fucking world, will you.

Here, almost a decade ago, so think of all those ambulance and air transportation charges doulbed.

So, MASA has almost 3 million paying members. Started off fifty years ago in Oklahoma, as an air ambulance service. Now, they are in Plantation, FLorida (what a fucking name is that?) and their are an insurer.

So, today, for $4900, a couple (have to be over 52) get all these potential benefits in the likelihood of an injury or 911 call and then an ambulance ride to the local hospital.

The news is trauma centers are closing across Oregon and the USA, another product of those fucking MAGA deplorables and those Trump Derangement Syndrome Unwoke Woke fuckers.

Ralph Nader has been writing about the rip-offs of for profit medicine (sic) for decades.

Deregulation of the airlines fucking airline service and tripled the costs of a trip, but also, the fucking politicians also deregulated helicopter companies-services. So it’s the fucking dog-eat-dog wild west out there for these fucking profit sucking agencies.

Now now, hospitals are one a five tier rating, I being the best, V being barely a clinic. Out here in the beauty, we have a III and IV, so any real emergency and life threatening thing means death, of course, or a trip to a hospital (or several) in a road or air ambulance.

With those Romney-Obama ACA cuts, we saw $716 billion cut from Medicare.

Trauma centers are an effective but costly element of the US health care infrastructure. Some level I and II trauma centers regularly incur financial losses when these high fixed costs are coupled with high burdens of uncompensated care for disproportionately young and uninsured trauma patients. As a result, they are at risk of reducing their services or closing.

Hundreds of Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Almost 700 rural hospitals – over 30% of all rural hospitals in the country – are at risk of closing. These hospitals are at risk because of the serious financial problems they are experiencing:

• Losses on Patient Services: Health insurance plans do not pay these hospitals enough to cover the cost of delivering services to patients. Their losses will likely be greater in the future due to the higher costs that all hospitals, particularly small rural hospitals, are experiencing because of inflation and workforce shortages. In the past, many of these hospitals have received grants, local tax revenues, or profits from other activities that have offset their losses on patient services, but there is usually no guarantee that these funds will continue to be available in the future or that they will be sufficient to cover higher costs.

• Low Financial Reserves: The hospitals do not have adequate net assets (i.e., assets other than buildings & equipment, minus debt) to offset their losses on patient services for more than 6-7 years. There are hospitals at risk of closing in almost every state. In over half the states, 25% or more of the rural hospitals are at risk of closing, and in 8 states, the majority of rural hospitals are at risk.

Ralph Nader: The corporate defrauding of taxpayers (eg. Medicaid and Medicare) and prescription drugs with skyrocketing prices was the subject of a report by Public Citizen’s Dr. Sidney Wolfe and his associates (see citizen.org).

Political activist Ralph Nader recently drew attention to the problem of doctors and hospitals overcharging patients for healthcare services, a practice that costs at least $270 billion a year, counterpunch reported. About 80 percent of medical bills contain errors averaging $1,300 in the provider’s favor, the article noted. Double billing, code unbundling and charges for phantom procedures are rampant. “For the corporate establishment,” Nader wrote, “there are always easy ways out [when they’re caught overbilling] such as confessing error but not intent … They quickly correct the specific bill of its offending bloat and satisfy the complaining patient, but nothing changes overall.” Bilkers must be challenged more often, according to Nader, to end what he described as “arguably our country’s biggest commercial crime wave.”

[https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/02/the-crime-of-overbilling-healthcare/?%23038;%23038]

According to NNU’s data, the top 10 Most Expensive Hospitals in the U.S. listed according to the huge percentage of their charges relative to their costs are:

1. Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, Secaucus, NJ – 1192%
2. Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Center, Painsville, KY – 1186%
3. Orange Park Medical Center, Orange Park, FL – 1139%
4. North Okaloosa Medical Center, Crestview, FL – 1137%
5. Gadsden Regional Medical Center, Gadsden, AL – 1128%
6. Bayonne Medical Center, Bayonne, NJ – 1084%
7. Brooksville Regional Hospital, Brooksville, FL – 1083%
8. Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center, Davenport, FL – 1058%
9. Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, PA – 1058%
10. Oak Hill Hospital, Spring Hill, FL – 1052%

And so it goes — the MASA lady got maybe four people to shell out $4900, so for $20,000 in, the meals cost around $220 total?

And so, no politics, uh, at this event? As we fucking bomb the world, starve the world, send chaos and sanctions throughout the globe, these Central Oregon Coasties are worried about ambulance rates sky rocketing (three or four HUNDRED percent, not this fucking Diaper Fuck Joe “I Have Jew Grandkiddos and a jew son in law doctor in the family” BIden’s three.5 percent Dirty Janet Yellen and Garland Wailing Wall Lies.

‘People burned alive’ in attack on Rafah

Devastation in Rafah as Israel claims it followed int’l law (while using 2,000-pound bombs); strikes continue all over Gaza; raids all over West Bank; report on Israel’s use of US-made 2,000-pound bombs that even the Biden administration had opposed!

How many mother fucking hospitals have the jews of Raped Murdered SLain Maimed Poisoned Starved Stolen Palestine flattened? How many doctors and medical personal murdered?

And here we are, worried about our bankrupting ambulance services and these $89,000 life flight bills.

This is the fuckery of jewish run-lead-curated-banked-controlled UnUnited Snakes of AmeriKKKa.

Keep feeding the fucking Fortune 5,000 Criminals Our Babies!

• Demographics — specifically, population growth and aging — continue to be the primary drivers for increasing the need for more doctors to meet the health care needs of tomorrow. By 2036, the U.S. population is projected to grow by 8.4%. Additionally, the population aged 65 and older is projected to grow by 34.1%, with an increase of 54.7% in the size of the population aged 75 and older. Since older Americans tend to need more health care and access more physicians, the AAMC projects this trend will lead to a substantial growth in demand, particularly for the specialists they need most often.
• A large portion of the physician workforce is nearing the traditional retirement age. Physicians aged 65 or older are 20% of the clinical physician workforce, and those between age 55 and 64 are 22% of the clinical physician workforce. As a result, a significant number of physicians will reach retirement age within the next decade — if they have not already. The AAMC projects that this will significantly decrease the physician supply in the coming years. 
• In addition, the AAMC examined and found that if communities underserved by the nation’s health care system could obtain care at the same rate as populations with better access to care, the nation would have needed approximately 202,800 more physicians as of 2021. This is more than five times the magnitude of current shortfall estimates based on current utilization.
  • Because these estimates look at alternatives to current utilization, these estimates were excluded from physician shortfall ranges, which are all based on current utilization patterns. 

Give our money and time and energy and support and youth and concentration to these fucking criminals?

The United States could save $67 billion each year in health care costs if every person used a primary care provider as their main source of care, according to one estimate. Yet 30% of Americans don’t have a primary care doctor due to a shortage of providers, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). The Association of American Medical Colleges projects we’ll be short as many as 124,000 physicians by 2034, more than a third of them primary care providers. According to a recent survey from Athenahealth, 80% of physicians already report talent shortages within their practices.

And the fucking MEDIA lie, get it all wrong, but they, them, pressitutes, are working for THEM, those fucking billionaires and their Eichmann;s.

How Big Media Facilitate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza — Corporate media’s dehumanization of Palestinians, lack of historical context, and repeating hearsay as fact make the current tragedy unintelligible to Americans

So, is it any wonder that almost ALL fucking stories covered by these prostitutes in the press are jury rigged for profiteers and mercenaries and merchants of death?

Michael Parenti, more than a decade ago!

The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me.  I think the 85 richest individuals, who together are worth many hundreds of billions of dollars, must have far more wealth than the poorest half of our global population.

How could these two cohorts, the 85 richest and 3.5 billion poorest, have the same amount of wealth? The great majority of the 3.5 billion have no net wealth at all. Hundreds of millions of them have jobs that hardly pay enough to feed their families. Millions of them rely on supplements from private charity and public assistance when they can. Hundreds of millions are undernourished, suffer food insecurity, or go hungry each month, including many among the very poorest in the United States.

Most of the 3.5 billion earn an average of $2.50 a day. The poorest 40 percent of the world population accounts for just 5 percent of all global income. About 80 percent of all humanity live on less than $10 a day. And the poorest 50 percent  maintain only 7.2 percent of the world’s private consumption. How exactly could they have accumulated an amount of surplus wealth comparable to the 85 filthy richest?

Hundreds of millions live in debt even in “affluent” countries like the United States. They face health care debts, credit card debts, college tuition debts, and so on. Many, probably most who own homes—and don’t live in shacks or under bridges or in old vans—are still straddled with mortgages. This means their net family wealth is negative, minus-zero. They have no  propertied wealth; they live in debt.

Millions among the poorest 50 percent in the world may have cars but most of them also have car payments. They are driving in debt.  In countries like Indonesia, for the millions without private vehicles, there are the overloaded, battered buses, poorly maintained vehicles that specialize in breakdowns and ravine plunges. Among the lowest rungs of the 50 percent are the many who pick thru garbage dumps and send their kids off to work in grim, soul-destroying sweatshops.

The 85 richest in the world probably include the four members of the Walton family (owners of Wal-Mart, among the top ten superrich in the USA) who together are worth over $100 billion. Rich families like the DuPonts have controlling interests in giant corporations like General Motors, Coca-Cola, and United Brands. They own about forty manorial estates and private museums in Delaware alone and have set up 31 tax-exempt foundations. The superrich in America and in many other countries find ways, legal and illegal, to shelter much of their wealth in secret accounts. We don’t really know how very rich the very rich really are.

Regarding the poorest portion of the world population—whom I would call the valiant, struggling “better half”—what mass configuration of wealth could we possibly be talking about? The aggregate wealth possessed by the 85 super-richest  individuals, and the aggregate wealth owned by the world’s 3.5 billion poorest, are of different dimensions and different natures. Can we really compare private jets, mansions, landed estates, super luxury vacation retreats, luxury apartments, luxury condos, and luxury cars, not to mention hundreds of billions of dollars in equities, bonds, commercial properties, art works, antiques, etc.—can we really compare all that enormous wealth against some millions of used cars, used furniture, and used television sets, many of which are ready to break down?  Of what resale value if any, are such minor durable-use commodities, especially in communities of high unemployment, dismal health and housing conditions, no running water, no decent sanitation facilities, etc? We don’t really know how poor the very poor really are.

Millions of children who number in the lower 50 percent never see the inside of a school. Instead they labor in mills, mines and on farms, under conditions of peonage.  Nearly a billion people are unable to read or write. The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population. So poverty is spreading even as wealth accumulates. It is not enough to bemoan this enormous inequality, we must also explain why it is happening.

But for now, let me repeat: the world’s richest 85 individuals do not have the same amount of accumulated wealth as the world’s poorest 50 percent. They have vastly more. The multitude on the lower rungs—even taken as a totality—have next to nothing.

Global wealth: 1% own 48%; 10% own 87% and bottom 50% own less than 1%