John Stinger has been a professional cartoonist for many years. He sold his first cartoon at 16 to a national publication, was syndicated via the Stars and Stripes in the military, and in the ‘80s, launched a daily financial cartoon "Big Business" appearing in 65 U.S. and Canadian newspapers. His first book was "I Buy Junk. I Sell Antiques!" For additional fun, he collects American paintings and antiques and is an exhibiting landscape painter working in oils. www.stingerfineart.com
JOHN'S CARTOONS (at the bottom of Alan Schlein's articles)
NEWS
- Follow the Money: Budget Negotiations Could Mean Major Changes for Medicare and Social Security (September 2017)
- House-passed Healthcare Bill on Way to Senate: Should Seniors Worry About What It Mandates? (June 2017)
- Proposed Budget Cuts Could Severely Curtail Effective Senior Health Care Research and Initiatives (May 2017)
- Why Does Replacing Obamacare Matter to Seniors? (April 2017)
- Justice, Oh Justice, Where Art Thou for Nursing Home Residents? (November 2016)
- Medicare and Health Care Insurance Snags, Traps, Escalating Costs, And Surprising Bipartisan Potential Solutions (September 2016)
- Congressional Health – A Legislative Roundup (June 2016)
- House Speaker Paul Ryan, Social Security and Medicare — Big Changes, Little Tweaks or...? (December 2015)
- Good, Bad and Worse News about Medicare (October 2015)
- Dying at What Cost – And in Peace or in Pain? (September 2015)
- Far Too Many Seniors Are Going Hungry: Only a Few Programs Are Stepping Up to the Empty Plate (August 2015)
- Medicare ‘Doc Fix’ Finally a Done Deal (May 2015)
- Generic Drug Prices Soaring Sky-High and No One Is Sure Why – Or What to Do About It (February 2015)
- Washington Watch Potpourri: Social Security, Medicare and the FDA – Still Waiting, Not Paying, and the Naming Game (December 2014)
- Slow to No Action on Drug Costs, Medicare and Social Security with Election Year Mentality (September 2014)
- This is Your Medicare on Drugs: Fraud and Abuse Rampant in Part D Drug Program. Will Proposed New Rules Bring Much-needed Reform? (February 2014)
- Desperately Seeking Answers to Medicare Spending and Scams (January 2014)
- The State of Senior Finances: Often Bleak, Trending Toward Dismal with a Few Rays of Hope (November 2013)
- Seniors and Obamacare –What You Need to Know (October 2013)
- Early Positive Results of Obamacare Enactment Enumerated while ‘Defunding Efforts’ Continue and Enrollment Startup Just a Few Weeks Away (September 2013)
- Saves Money, Saves Lives, But Will Medicare and the Health Care Community Adopt this Model? (August 2013)
- Love It or Leave It: Health Care Insurance Sign-ups Targeted at Both Fed and State Levels. (July 2013)
- The Medicare ‘Observation’ Muddle: Are You an Inpatient or Not? And How Much Will That Cost You? (June 2013)
- What Could Going over the Fiscal Cliff Mean for Seniors? (January 2013)
- Washington Roundup (November 2012)
- Stark Differences Define Political Battle over Medicaid (September 2012)
- Healthcare Law Still Faces Obstacles (August 2012)
- Senior Issues – Drug Reimportation and Shortages, The Doughnut Hole, and Housing Relocation – Facing Mixed Results (August 2012)
- Feds Gear Up to Wage Aggressive War on Alzheimer’s as Defining Disease of Boomers and Beyond (April 2012)
- Implementing Health Care Reform, Despite Opposition (April 2012)
- Washington on the Move: Long Term Care Program Dies, So May Some Patients Facing Drug Shortages, And the High Court Hurries Up - Or Maybe Not (April 2012)