No. 47/Jan. 3, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Feds Attack Private Equity-Owned Medical Practices Private equity firms have been buying up physician practices, and the Federal Trade Commission has fired a shot across their bow in the […]
Photo by Jarl Schmidt on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As the year ends, darkness has invaded our consciousness. Darkness, literally, because the days are short. Darkness, figuratively, as our species reveals its capacity for wielding death and destruction in Ukraine […]
Photo by Sincerely Media for Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. All my life I have made my living by working with my hands – if typing counts. So I had been concerned for months about the growing number […]
No. 46/Dec. 20, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Equity Capital Wins, Assisted Living Residents and Staff Lose According to an investigation published Sunday by The Washington Post, investors have been buying assisted-living properties, putting pre… Read more
Photo by Hubert Neufeld on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Financially, my wife and I think we’re sitting pretty right now. We each get a monthly Social Security check, and she has a nice retirement fund thanks to 35 years of […]
Photo by Chris Charles on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This week I attended my first Death Café. If that statement disturbs you, then you have just illustrated why Death Cafés are needed. Death is not a familiar presence in the […]
No. 45/Dec. 6, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Your Call Is Very Important To Us If you happen to call the Social Security Administration’s toll-free line with questions or concerns, you can expect to be on hold […]
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. “There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote. Of course, Fitzgerald only lived to be 44. Had he devoted less time to pickling his liver and […]
Photo by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash By the end of second grade, it was an even bet that I was headed down the road to delinquency. For starters, I was caught with a knife on the playground (actually, a popsicle stick sharpened to a point on the sidewalk, which I had brought for show and tell). My second […]
No. 44/Nov. 22, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Dr. Ruth vs. the Loneliness Epidemic If you thought you had heard the last of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the fearless sex therapist who spoke openly in the 80s about […]
