#age: senior

[lookingforcactus]

A big cost and concern for many seniors in the U.S. is the price of prescription drugs and other healthcare expenses—and this year, thanks to The Inflation Reduction Act, their costs may go down dramatically, especially for patients fighting cancer or heart disease.

I learned about the new benefits because my ‘Medicare birthday’ is coming up in a couple months when I turn 65. I was shocked that there were so many positive changes being made, which I never heard about on the news.

Thousands of Americans on Medicare have been paying more than $14,000 a year for blood cancer drugs, more than $10,000 a year for ovarian cancer drugs, and more than $9,000 a year for breast cancer drugs, for instance.

That all changed beginning in 2023, after the Biden administration capped out-of-pocket prescriptions at $3,500—no matter what drugs were needed. And this year, in 2024, the cap for all Medicare out-of-pocket prescriptions went down to a maximum of $2,000.

“The American people won, and Big Pharma lost,” said President Biden in September 2022, after the legislation passed. “It’s going to be a godsend to many families.”

Another crucial medical necessity, the shingles vaccine, which many seniors skip because of the cost, is now free. Shingles is a painful rash with blisters, that can be followed by chronic pain, and other complications, for which there is no cure

In 2022, more than 2 million seniors paid between $100 and $200 for that vaccine, but starting last year, Medicare prescription drug plans dropped the cost for shots down to zero.

Another victory for consumers over Big Pharma affects anyone of any age who struggles with diabetes. The cost of life-saving insulin was capped at $35 a month [for people on Medicare].

Medicare is also lowering the costs of the premium for Part B—which covers outpatient visits to your doctors. 15 million Americans will save an average of $800 per year on health insurance costs, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Last year, for the first time in history, Medicare began using the leverage power of its large patient pool to negotiate fair prices for drugs. Medicare is no longer accepting whatever drug prices that pharmaceutical companies demand.

Negotiations began on ten of the most widely used and expensive drugs.

Among the ten drugs selected for Medicare drug price negotiation were Eliquis, used by 3.7 million Americans and Jardiance and Xarelto, each used by over a million people. The ten drugs account for the highest total spending in Medicare Part D prescription plans...

How are all these cost-savings being paid for?

The government is able to pay for these benefits by making sure the biggest corporations in America are paying their fair share of federal taxes.

In 2020, for instance, dozens of American companies on the Fortune 500 list who made $40 billion in profit paid zero in federal taxes.

Starting in 2023, U.S. corporations are required to pay a minimum corporate tax of 15 percent. The Inflation Reduction Act created the CAMT, which imposed the 15% minimum tax on the adjusted financial statement income of any corporation with average income that exceeds $1 billion.

For years, Americans have decried the rising costs of health care—but in the last three years, there are plenty of positive developments.

-via Good News Network, February 25, 2024

#united states #medicare #healthcare #healthcare access #big pharma #prescription drugs #health insurance #us politics #good news #hope #seniors #aging #healthy aging

[waterghostype]

crusty kid

#baby lloyd would totally be all over capitalistic free to play hiearchal roleplay simulation websites #ninjago #lloyd garmadon #ninjago lloyd #dude i LOVED animal jam it was my life #i rmb the day i got membership the world was revolutionary… then i stopped playing #now im old enough to pay for my own membership #but being a senior high student also means i cant play animal jam #it’s so weird to think im now the age of all the ytbers i used to watch #animal jam drama was truly something else #anyways i love this little shitbaby lloyd #hes so stupid i love him #cant wait for him to experience the horrors #when i first watched ninjago i was confused why lloyd was a baby bc i thought that lloyd was everyone’s fav prettyboy #i initially thought lloyd was totally loyal to evilman garmadon and started off as an actual formidable enemy #though now i want to make an au like that #aphid’s ninjashits

[kiwoa]

i don't post her here often, as she *hates* cameras, but i figured for today she deserves to be shown as the brilliant star she is. happy birthday, opal!

#opal the dog #mutts #dogs #mixed breed #chow mix #my petses #snapped that photo on our walk this morning #so it's an accurate representation of her senior self #doesn't she look good? #if only we could all age as gracefully

[dresspheres]

59 Icons | Maester Mika | Final Fantasy X HD

59 Icons for Maester Mika from Final Fantasy X HD.

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#Final Fantasy Icons #Final Fantasy #Mika #Mika Icons #Final Fantasy X Icons #Final Fantasy X #Maester Mika #Maester Mika Icons #age: senior #light skin #beard #hc: white #hl: short #male #Roleplay Icons

[camelliagwerm]

You know about Morrigan and me?

#daedit #dragon age #dragon age origins #senior enchanter wynne #morrigan x warden #dao #*dao #harper.gif #pair: magni x morrigan #oc: magni #this has been living in my head rent free all afternoon lmao #userengferth #userophe #userzahrahydris #katewalker #aartyom #usermorvaris #arcandoria #usermactir #usereivorwolfsmal #userrivensbane

[peaches2217]

So we all know and love those two panels of Mario and Peach having dinner and then leaning in for a kiss from that one weird Club Nintendo comic, but I feel like the panels that immediately proceed them are just as cute and worthy of recognition, so please admire them with me.

#‘mario and friends finding out that wario has made a pact with a demon and going on an epic horror movie crossover adventure’? #no I think you mean ‘mario and peach literally being married and living together (and some other bullshit happens too)’ #there’s another club nintendo comic that shows them at their senior prom together #which would be adorable if not for the blasphemous image of mario still clean-shaven at age 17 or so #that boy did NOT have a baby face as an older teenager/young adult. I won’t be convinced otherwise #super mario bros #smb #mario x peach #mareach

[merakiui]

this has the same energy of finding out your coworker is either much older/much younger than you originally assumed.

#meraki mumbles #'i may have understated my age a little' T_T lilia 18 and 700 is wildly absurd difference orz #he's so silly <3 i love my senior citizen war general veteran lilia vanrouge

[mxtxfanatic]

So I just did some math, and y’all got me fucked up. I’ve seen so much handwringing in this fandom about the age disparity between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian’s body because “oh, lwj is soooooo much older than Mo Xuanyu, it ‘basically’ counts as a grooming that wwx was given such a young body and lwj is still attracted to him!”

It’s literally not true. Lan Wangji is around 33 at the start of the present-day plotline. Mo Xuanyu is 27. Y’all are so full of shit.

The math:

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are around the same age, give or take some months. They are 15/16 at the start of the Cloud Recesses arc, the discussion conference in Qishan happens less than two years later (16), the Wen indoctrination camp happens definitively when they are 17 (madam yu says so) a year later, then the Sunshot Campaign takes place 2 weeks after that with Lotus Pier’s fall. The war lasts for around a year or two, but wwx mentions he is 20 during the Phoenix Mountain hunt. This means he’s still 20 when he breaks the Wen remnants out of the labor camps 2 months later, and they abscond to the Burial Mounds. For Burial Mounds arc timeline, you have to go by A-Yuan/Lan Sizhui’s. A-Yuan is a teething toddler between one and two (jc deduces) in the Burial Mounds. He’s 15 at the start of the story 13 years later. The Burial Mounds settlement, therefore, lasts about a year. By the time of the siege, wwx should be 21 (again, give or take a few months). Thirteen years later, lwj is 33/34.

Mo Xuanyu, on the other hand, is given a definite age start. He is 14 when he is taken by Jin Guangshan back to Koi Tower. This happens after the siege but  before Nie Mingjue dies (Jin Guangyao mentions this in the chapt. 79 flashback during his argument with Nie Mingjue about Xue Yang), and Nie Mingjue dies a year after the first siege takes place. This would mean that Mo Xuanyu is 14 when the siege happens and, 13 years later, he would be 27 when he sacrifices his body to summon Wei Wuxian.

Mo Xuanyu is not some barely-legal young adult at the start of the story, and the age difference, besides, would be 7 years at most. The fact that this is regular discourse is embarrassing.

#human reads mdzs: take 2 #nevermind that this discourse is STUPID anyways #given that wwx is literally the same age as lwj #but whatever #y'all also need to stop treating ADULTS PUSHING 30 like they're still teenagers #that 'you're a child in your 20s but a senior citizen once you hit 30' shit ain't cute

[pan-de-nomena]

sometimes i think about how we dont really see older aged trolls in the franchise and how they probably kept sacrificing themselves to save the young ones from being eaten

#I probably remember it wrong #but King Peppy is the only old troll there (aside from JD ig). Peppy's generation probably did their best to keep Peppy alive bc they had c #unless i havent been paying attention and there really are old pop trolls in some bgs. mf seniors are probs traumatized to hell and back lo #Trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #Trolls band together to keep the children from getting eaten #I already used that joke before and im gonna use it bc im proud of it #actually what if trolls just age reaaaaally slowly #bc we already saw adult trolls during the beginning of the film #nah jd and bruce exists and they both look 40 somethings so #king peppy #grandma rosiepuff #branch trolls

[connorsbonez]

DC/DP Crossover Idea #57

Where Alfred meets and befriends(?) a 14 year old monochrome boy who talks with 50s lingo and goes by the name Sidney, and Sidney ends up following him back to the manor.

After that, everyone seemed to be much better behaved.

That or a full blown prank war happens.

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dp x dc prompt #danny phantom #crossover #sidney poindexter #alfred pennyworth #Alfred is aware that Sidney’s a ghost #The wiki says Sidney is estimated to be around 14-17 when he died and I’ve always seen him as a 14 year old #something about Sidney and Danny being around the same age when they met and Danny aging and growing older #but Sidney staying the same 14 year old boy he was when he died #which probably doesn’t make sense since I’m pretty sure Sidney was a senior when he died #but I kinda went with the idea that Sidney just skipped a few grades #Conbon’s Prompts

[stuckinapril]

do u think it’s weird for an 18 and 21 yr old to date?

Yeah tbh. These are such big years for us. Me rn at 21 is so different from me at 18. You could argue that there’s a 21 year old out there who’s just as sheltered as an 18 year old—and to that I say probably, because there are exceptions to every case. But most 21 year olds have had more experience w relationships than 18 year olds. I would side eye any 21 year old who’d see it as appealing to date someone who’s 18. Just not appropriate to me

#Am I being harsh like idk #My friends and I know a guy who’s 23 and dating someone who juuust turned 19 #And everyone dogs on him for it and thinks it’s weird #And like I Agree bc why are you at the age to be a college senior dating someone who just graduated hs? Idk like 3 years aren’t many but #They’re so big for us bc of the transitions we do during them #I can actually never look at an 18 year old and think I could date them 💀💀 #They automatically get little brother zoned I fear #ask

[cringengl]

So 13 yr old mleven can make out but 18 yr old byler can't?? Ok..

#idk if they will be that age but post time skip they probably will be #they'll at least be 17 but my point still stands #highschool junior to senior age #byler #stranger things #anti mileven

[dresspheres]

17 Icons | Maechen | Final Fantasy X HD

17 Icons for Maechen from Final Fantasy X HD.

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#Final Fantasy Icons #Final Fantasy X Icons #Final Fantasy #Maechen #Maechen Icons #Final Fantasy X #age: senior #beard #glasses #male #light skin

[hotasfahrenheit]

"Smile again, please?"

Love Senior, Ep 1

#i hope the whole show is this pretty #it's giving me Why R U? vibes with the Random Pack of Assorted Engineering Girls instead of boys and i'm here for it #like there are so many girls on this show i'm going to need several episodes to get them all fixed in my brain #i hope they get up to the kinds of shenanigans the boys in WRU did because that was one of the best representations of university aged boys #also how can you go wrong with a show that has a lead girl named gyoza like pls i love her already #love senior #love senior the series #thai gl #lsts manaow #lsts gyoza #gyozamanaow #manaowgyoza #mia gifs things #mia gifs drama things #mia gifs love senior things

[lowqualitygarbage]

TERMINAL. BABY. FACE.

Another silly Vault 666 comic, because every time I draw something with Lucifer in it his stupid baby face bugs me. 

It drives him crazy in-universe too, though. He can’t grow facial hair to save his life (only patchy little wisps of almost-invisible blonde peach fuzz). He is 5'2″ and has a baby face and it is SO HARD to get people to take him seriously sometimes. He likes wearing his lab coat outside of his workshop because people still tend to associate “scientist” with “authority” and he will take whatever help he can get at this point.

Doesn’t help that most Wastelanders age like milk due to exposure to elements, poor nutrition, tons of environmental hazards, and radiation everywhere. 

Text translation below cut:

Charlie: Bye guys, be good!

Lucifer: Have fun, girls!

Angel: Must’ve been tough, raisin’ Charlie.

Lucifer: Huh? ...Not really. The vault was safe, and Lilith was SUPER hands-on.

Angel: Well, yeah, but she’s in her 20s now, right? You must’ve been crazy young when she was born.

Lucifer: Uhh... I’m 47.

Angel: NO FUCKIN’ WAY!

Arrow to Alastor: 36 years old

#Vault 666 #Hazbin Hotel AU #Hazbin AU #Fallout AU #Lucifer Morningstar #Lucifer Magne #hazbin hotel lucifer #Angel Dust #hazbin hotel angel dust #Alastor #Sir Pentious #Niffty #Husk #Lucifer does actually have a lot of respect and power to his name it's just his reputation and his appearance DO NOT match up #Al is butthurt because he was not expecting Lucifer to be nearly 10 years his senior #It's weird trying to juggle ages when demonic immortality is taken out of the equation and having their shit be semi-realistic #Not set in stone but I think everyone else in the hotel aside from Husk is early-to-mid 20s with Pent being early 30s #Which still means Al was in his mid-20s at the latest when he picked up Husk and Niffty #and she started working for him in her teens #My computer keeps making sounds like it's going to explode so sorry if my posting slows a lot until I get it fixed or replaced

[wikitpowers]

the fandom when 'the last shadowhunter' comes out:

#FR THO :')) #all of us will be old as hell #it's gonna be like a senior club at that point #(but it's still gonna be the best club around so...) #it's kinda beautiful to be aging with this series <3 #the last king of faerie #the last prince of hell #the last shadowhunter #twp #the wicked powers #tsc