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Aging in America is a guide to the possibilities and realities of getting old in the United States. My newsletter encompasses the contents of my three “Get What’s Yours” books on Social Security, Medicare, and health care. It also deals with pocketbook matters, how we use our time during our later years, the things that give our lives satisfaction and meaning, and the importance of staying engaged with life.
As a journalist for more than 50 years, I am alarmed at the proliferation of alleged journalism based on false information. You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own “facts.” I certainly have my own views, but include links to studies, reports, and articles that I believe are accurate. If I make mistakes, which of course I will, I invite readers to set me straight so that I can make corrections.
Until early 2024, Aging in America was named Get What’s Yours, which was based on my books. As I keep encountering broader topics related to aging, it made sense to adopt a more inclusive name.
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Philip Moeller
I am a journalist, author and entrepreneur. I co-authored the first “Get What’s Yours” book on Social Security with Larry Kotlikoff and Paul Solman; I am the sole author of the second and third GWY volumes on Medicare and Health Care.
Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security was on The New York Times bestseller list for six months after its release in 2015. One of the little-used claiming strategies highlighted in the book – the so-called “file and suspend” strategy – was so popular with readers that Congress decided to eliminate it in late 2015. A revised edition of the book was published in 2016 and, remains an accurate and comprehensive guide to the program.
Get What’s Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs, was published in 2016. It became a bestseller in its field and remains helpful. Medicare has changed a lot since 2016, however, and a revised edition will be published this October in time for the Medicare annual enrollment period, which runs from October 15 through December 7.
Get What's Yours for Health Care: How to Get the Best Care at the Right Price was published in 2021 and is a useful guide to navigating our messed-up health care system.
My career as newspaper reporter, business editor, and columnist has taken me to The Charlotte Observer, the Chicago Sun-Times, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, The (Baltimore) Sun, and the Hartford Business Journal. I have won some journalism awards along the way, am a former president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, and was in the inaugural class of Bagehot Fellows in Business and Economics Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
After leaving daily newspapers, I founded Insure.com, an Internet pioneer that became the leading online provider of consumer insurance information. I sold that business in the early 2000s and later was a corporate communications executive at Genworth Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services firm. In 2008, I returned to journalism, first at U.S. News & World Report and later at Money magazine and the PBS NewsHour.
I graduated from Princeton University and have a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where I also taught. I live in central Virginia.
