By then they may already be caught up in another domestic bind: looking after their husband's old parents.

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Keep in mind that unless medical cost inflation picks up, Medicare Advantage will be in a similar bind next year, looking at another potential cost cut.

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South Koreans are only now waking up to the scale of the problem, stunned that their country could be in such a bind.

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