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Richard Eisenberg

@eisenb.bsky.social
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“Unretired” writer, editor and podcaster specializing in personal finance, work, retirement and aging

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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
July 30 is the 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Sad news for theater fans: Richard Greenberg, whose plays were so funny, cutting, and elegantly structured, has died at 67. He was best known for Take Me Out, but so much from him is worth revisiting. He was one of those gay writers who viewed wit as a holy mission. He was more than up to the task.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
DOGE has put 3/4 of AmeriCorps employees on administrative leave, basically gutting the federal volunteering program.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I remember working at Gannett’s USA Today when diversity of sources was a strong demand by the publisher and editors
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Good news for some people with crushing medical debt kffhealthnews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kffhealt...
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Blockbuster Deal Will Wipe Out $30 Billion in Medical Debt. Even Backers Say It’s Not Enough. - KFF Health News
Undue Medical Debt is retiring unpaid medical bills for 20 million people. The debt trading company that owned them is leaving the market.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Will consumer protections for airline passengers bite the dust? www.fodors.com/news/news/ai...?
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Airlines Push to Undo Passenger Protections
Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What to do if your doctor retires or goes concierge www.marketwatch.com/story/what-t...
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What to do when your doctor retires or charges $10,000 a year to go concierge
The odds are growing that your doctor will leave their practice amid a nationwide shortage of primary-care physicians.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Medicare beneficiaries will still be able to have telehealth appointments and hospital at home covered — through September, due to new legislation that kept government open
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
What the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife tell us about Alzheimer’s caregiving www.abqjournal.com/lifestyles/h...
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Arakawa's death highlights the challenges of Alzheimer's caregiving
My mother died of the stress of Alzheimer’s caregiving. A decade into caring for my father — and hiding his diagnosis from their friends — she dropped dead of a
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Perfect timing: more than 100 IRS assistance centers closing www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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IRS to close more than 110 offices with taxpayer assistance centers
The plan is outlined in a letter from the U.S. General Services Administration that was obtained by The Washington Post.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
How the Aging Together program tackles ageism by having older adults talk candidly with each other about aging www.nextavenue.org/how-the-agin...
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How the Aging Together Project Tackles Ageism
Good things happened when older adults talked candidly with each other about aging
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
5 things no one tells you about retirement on.mktw.net/3CJNAsD
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
CFPB halts all agency work, freezes scheduled consumer protection rules www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/b...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordered by acting director to stop fighting financial abuse | CNN Business
Russell Vought, the newly installed acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sent an email Saturday night ordering all employees at the consumer watchdog to stop virtually all work...
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How Trump’s federal workforce purge could affect Social Security applicants and recipients open.substack.com/pub/retireme...
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How Trump's federal workforce purge could impact Social Security customer service
Plus: Most Americans say they're OK paying more in taxes to keep Social Security solvent
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Why mass deportations spell trouble for some families needing long-term care www.nextavenue.org/mass-deporta...
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Mass Deportations Spell Trouble for Some Families Needing Long-Term Care
What experts think President Trump’s sweeping policy could mean for care at home, in nursing homes and in assisted-living centers
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Help for older adults hoping to keep working www.marketwatch.com/story/older-...
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Older workers are struggling to find jobs — these tools may help
Ageism, “ghost jobs” and networking — advice for older job hunters.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Why the best places in the Best Places to Retire lists vary so much, plus what goes into the rankings www.nextavenue.org/rating-the-b...
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Rating the Best Places to Retire Lists
There’s an avalanche of lists, each with its own winners and criteria — here’s how to figure out where the best place to retire is for you.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A guide to the out-of-pocket health costs for people with Medicare this year, what’s new and what’s tricky fortune.com/well/article...
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If you have Medicare, here’s what you’ll pay for health care in 2025
The most significant Medicare change for 2025 will be the new $2,000 cap for prescription drugs.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My new Friends Talk Money podcast is all about getting your finances organized in 2025: friendstalkmoney.org/podcast/how-...
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump’s Medicare exec order ends pilot for $2 generics for chronic conditions
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Next Avenue @nextavenue.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
How a late or missed diagnosis can balloon costs for people with Alzheimer’s and their loved ones (from @eisenb.bsky.social)
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What We’ve Learned About Dementia’s Toll on Family Finances
How a late or missed diagnosis can balloon costs for people with Alzheimer’s and their loved ones
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Kara Swisher hoping to buy Wash Post with help from investors www.axios.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Scoop: Kara Swisher's long-shot Post bid
Swisher believes the Amazon founder will eventually want to sell, since the paper has become a managerial nightmare.
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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Yikes bsky.app/profile/theg...
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
My new Fodors.com piece on when to consider using a travel agent, when not, and how to find the right one www.fodors.com/news/travel-...
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How to Find a Good Travel Agent (And When You Should Never Use One)
Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.
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Joanna Stern @joannastern.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What the hell is happening with these drones in New Jersey? I did some drone hunting to find out. (Spoiler: Some of it looks like planes. Some of it IS planes. Some of it is definitely NOT planes.) www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
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There Are Mystery Drones Flying Over My House. I Tried to Track Them Down.
Authorities say unexplained aircraft over New Jersey is no cause for concern. My neighbors, however, are concerned.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
And for home care.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I think part of it is older workers aren’t seeking promotions.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Said Orson Welles: I’ve heard this radio show before
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Kerry Hannon @kerryhannon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Who doesn't love remote work? @yahoo-finance.bsky.social finance.yahoo.com/news/working...
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Working in an office is just about 'looking busy': Readers weigh in on the workplace battle of 2025
Nearly 3,000 readers weighed in on the escalating pressure on workers to get back to the office, foreshadowing the workplace tug-of-war coming next year.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Trump’s Social Security pick is a CEO with no government experience. Can he guide a troubled program 67 million Americans rely on?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/12/2024
“It had been nearly ten years since I’d last been on the dating market, and I felt like I had slept through some kind of revolution.” @jenniferwilson.bsky.social explores the business of heartbreak, which looks to replace the classic pint of ice cream with breakup coaches and get-over-him getaways.
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The New Business of Breakups
After getting dumped (by text), a writer investigates the feverish boom in heartbreak apps, breakup coaches, and get-over-him getaways.
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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Thanks to @jodylowepr.bsky.social for including me on this very good starter pack bsky.app/profile/thel...
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Mark Miller @retirementrevised.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Annual enrollment ends on Dec. 7. SHIP counselors can help -but many don't know about them. Instead, they get advice from brokers (biased in favor of products they rep), family and friends (biased by their own experiences, brand names and other irrelevant stuff) or worst of all, cable tv ads.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Why some Medicare agents aren’t getting paid and how it hurts Medicare shoppers fortune.com/well/article...
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Medicare agents might not recommend the best plans this year as profits take priority
Because some agents aren’t getting paid to sell certain Medicare Advantage policies, they may not recommend those plans even when they’re the best choices.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Nursing home industry pushing to rescind nursing home minimum staffing rules www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/h...
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Nursing Home Industry Wants Trump to Rescind Staffing Mandate
A Biden administration rule that imposed minimum rules on nursing levels may not survive, even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents’ care.
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just 14% of Americans 65+ meet federal physical activity guidelines search.app/AFazYv4a3xBu...
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Characteristics of older adults who met the federal physical activity guidelines: United States, 2022SearchSearchSearchhomehome
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Richard Eisenberg @eisenb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What Dr.Oz could mean for people on Medicare fortune.com/well/article...
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How Dr. Oz could change Medicare under President Trump
What you might expect from Oz if he runs Medicare, Medicaid, and management of the Affordable Care Act at the 6,000-person CMS.
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