While health care costs are steadily rising, the United States is about to see a giant jump in the number of senior citizens. Between 2010 and 2040, the number will jump from 50 to 80 million people. Jack W. Plunkett, CEO of Plunkett Research, Ltd.™, demonstrates why that is going to have an impact on the United States health care system using the latest market research and statistics. Also discussed are the subjects of the government health care bill, the large number of uninsured in the US and how United States health care costs compare to other nations in the OECD. These subjects have, and will continue to have, influence on health care industry trends As always, visit us at: www.facebook.com twitter.com and at www.plunkettresearch.com
September 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dreams don't retire. That's what Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE:AMP) is telling over 78 million baby boomers in a new advertising campaign that launches this Sunday, Sept. 10, during the first regular season broadcast of NBC Sunday Night Football at 8 pm eastern. The broadcast ads will feature a celebrity familiar to the boomer generation, actor Dennis Hopper.
December 8, 1995 www.amazon.com Watch the full interview: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Baby Boom Generation is a term that portrays the cohorts born during the middle part of the 20th Century. The birth years of the Baby Boom Generation are the subject of controversy. Historically, everyone born during the post-World War II demographic boom in births was called part of the Baby Boom Generation. This article deals with the Baby Boom Generation from a cultural perspective, while a separate article deals with the "Post-World War II baby boom". In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values; however, many commentators have disputed the extent of that rejection, noting the widespread continuity of values with older and younger generations. In Europe and North America boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up in a time of affluence. As a group, they were the healthiest, and wealthiest generation to that time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time. One of the features of Boomers was that they tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before them. In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the change they were bringing about. This rhetoric had an important impact in the self ...
