When Vic Paganucci of Norwalk, Conn., was given a chance to take early retirement last spring, he jumped at it. He was weary of his two-hour commute to Wall Street and no longer enjoyed his job as an insurance broker.
But now, at 58, he's having second thoughts. In part, it's because he misses the fulfillment a job provides. But increasingly, money is a concern, too.
"I have no problem paying the bills, but the market seems to go down endlessly," he says. "Sometimes I wish I had looked for a job rather than just retiring."
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While the country and young Americans in particular, whose demographic represents the largest chunk of the uninsured, have some reason to rejoice, the greatest danger going forward would be a return to complacency regarding the state and trajectory of the American healthcare “system” 
Just when healthcare passage seemed to be on its way, the Massachusetts special election entered the picture; leaving President Obama with many questions regarding the future of the bill.
An article about the recently released annual state obesity ranking conducted by the Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that while Mississippi is still leading for the fifth year in a row with 32.5% of resident adults qualifying as obese, several other states, including Alabama, West Virginia, and Tennessee, are quickly catching up. Worrisomely, 23 states saw an increase in adult obesity this year and none experienced a decrease. Additionally, the report shows that in every state, the obesity rate is higher among adults ages 55 – 64, the oldest baby boomers, than those over 65.