Getting Dad to Talk About It

My widowed father-in-law didn’t tell anyone about his symptoms — not his doctor, and not his grown son, who found out only when a member of the extended family called to say my husband needed to fly across the country immediately to see his dad.

By that point, the kidney cancer that would have been easy to treat if detected early had passed the fail-safe point. My father-in-law was not the kind of guy who liked to depend on people, so he made sure he had to for only a very short time before he died.

Read more, from the NY Times

Life Lessons from Jack Lalanne

From Men's Health. Read here.

How to turn a $250,000 Hospital Bill into a $17,000 Bill

Following up on yesterday's post "Senior Helpers Can Help Reduce your Medical Expenses up to 80%"where we announced a partnership with Health Care Advocates (HCA) the San Diego Reader has published the best expose on the systematic and institutionalized overcharging for services by the health care system that I have ever seen:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/jul/07/cover/

This article demonstrates the necessity of the service that Health Care Advocates provides and the sheer size of the problems that the average consumer faces when dealing with major medical bills.

Can you imagine your 85 year old mother or grandfather having to deal with this? 

Senior Helpers' FREE program puts a team of professionals behind you to negotiate with hospitals and other medical providers on your behalf.  Learn More ( www.managemymedicalbills.com/sh.html  )






By the way, Chad Deal, the author of the above article is now a huge supporter of HealthCare Advocates, Inc.  so much so that he is an Agent for HCA!

I trust you will be as motivated and educated by this article as I was.

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