By Raffique Shah
December 06, 2025

If you are a robust 50-something-year-old with no known affliction, which signals that you are a healthy specimen, then you may well be concerned mostly with the cost of living.

You will have noted the runaway prices that affect the average householder by way of increased prices for basic goods and services. You’ll wonder how people who earn less than $10K a month, who are breadwinners to their families, fare in this jungle where the hunt is for lower prices. Not only does every dollar count, but a man or woman will walk the proverbial mile and a half to save $5 on one basic food item such as rice, flour, corned beef, etc. If, however, you are stricken by diseases that are all too familiar-some might say rampant-you will have noted the leap in prices of pharmaceuticals which will have quadrupled over the past year.
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