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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is our country and lawmakers going to do anything about the number of seniors who are working minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet? In the end everyone is at a loss as there are 20 and 30 somethings who can’t take the jobs filled by elderly people and then the fact that someone had to work at 75. I was in a hospital recently and the nurse was 74, she told me she had been working as a nurse for 50 yrs but can’t afford to retire bc she has medical bills to pay. What is this country doing and how can we fix it?[/quote]

Before you get on that soapbox remember this, she has a pension because she belonged to a nurse's union, she has SS, she is on Medicare, she probably gets a discount for all medical and either you or she is lying because no nurse I know works as a nurse in their 70s.[/quote]

Really?  My pediatrician as a child was in his 80s, and my DC's pediatrician just retired at 87.  Their are other old docs at the office as well.  Best practice ever IMO.  Both loved their jobs, and didn't have to work.  So, while your nurse may or may not have to work, why couldn't a nurse do the same if he/she wanted to, and was mentally and physically able to after age 65?  I think their jobs are sometimes more physically demanding, so it would perhaps be harder.  Do nurses age out earlier than doctors?  [/quote]

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