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VOL. 31 NO. 3
Phase Two of Your Life
A Mature News Magazine for Southeastern Wisconsin
Another Season for the Boys of
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BY JACK PEARSON
ot too long ago, the noted sports writer Roger Kahn wrote a book called “The Boys of Summer.” It was about the game of baseball and the joys of playing the game and the thrills of competition, but also about what its players do with their lives as they age. It was a great book and became a nationwide bestseller. Well, we have our own Boys of Summer right here, primarily in senior softball leagues, but also in senior baseball. Our players are not former Major League superstars, as were Kahn’s. Some of them, however, were pretty good high school and college players, but many of them didn’t even play either game until they had reached retirement age, or at least close to it. They don’t play now before huge crowds in vast stadiums either, although sometimes their wives or children or even grandchildren or their dogs come out to cheer for them. They don’t play for fame or money either, but rather simply for the love of the game. Pardon the pun,
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BOYS OF SUMMER continued on page 30
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INSIDE.... A Diverse Experience Found St. Rose School See Page 33
The Best for Rehab and Memory Care See Pages 17-20
ART BY GENE HAAS
Your Never to Old to Play Softball
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TRUMPCARE: Will it be an affordable act? AGING ISSUES
By Tom Frazier
If you and I had to design a new health care system for the U.S. while being told that it was politically impossible to propose a single-payer plan (like Medicare), you might do something like this: First, we already have Medicare for older people so we don’t need to change that. Second, we already have Medicaid for poor people so maybe we should increase the eligi-
bility to include more people and expand it in every state. Third, we could then have private insurance companies (also, our existing system) cover everyone else with government subsidies to help those still unable to afford private insurance. Fourth, we can add a few government mandates like prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-exist-
ing conditions, allowing younger people to stay on their parents insurance plans to age 26, and eliminate yearly and lifetime caps on insurance policies. Finally, we need to require people to purchase a plan or pay a penalty because you can’t require all the other stuff if only sick people purchase a plan. I suggest that we call this the Affordable Care Act. FRAZIER continued on page 3