Archive for November, 2009
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Age Discrimination and Health Care Reform
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Guest Contributors: Carroll Estes, Ph.D., Peter Arno, PH.D. and Deborah Viola, Ph.D. The health care reform bills now before Congress contain an unpleasant surprise for older Americans: Age-based increases in health insurance premiums for those under 65. This is nothing more than a giveaway to the private insurance industry. At first blush, it might appear [...]
Let’s Not Forget the Battles to Create Social Security and Medicare
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Thank you to Nicholas Kristoff and the New York Times for providing some desperately needed perspective in the ongoing health care reform debate. Here’s an excerpt but we highly recommend you read the entire piece: “Indeed, these same arguments we hear today against health reform were used even earlier, to attack President Franklin Roosevelt’s call [...]
Passing the Buck to an Entitlement Commission
Monday, November 16th, 2009I’ve written here before about the fundamentally flawed concept of creating an Entitlement Commission to target cuts in Medicare and Social Security as a way out of our current budget mess. Today, I posted a long look at the latest efforts in the Senate to revive , rename and repackage entitlement commission legislation as a [...]
National Committee Member Shares her Story at the White House
Friday, November 13th, 2009Fran Garfinkle is a 70-year old retired small business owner from Maryland who understands how quickly retirement dreams can change in our current health care system. Fran, a member of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, joined First Lady Michelle Obama and Director of Health Reform Nancy Ann DeParle at a White [...]
Fast-tracking Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009The Senate Budget Committee heard testimony today on Chairman Kent Conrad and ranking member Senator Judd Gregg’s plans to create an entitlement commission. This group would be tasked (among other things) to “renegotiate our social contract”, as David Walker testified, under a fast-tracked, no amendments, up-or-down vote process designed to minimize Congress’ role in making [...]
Health Care Reform Bill is Good News for Medicare–Good News for Seniors
Monday, November 9th, 2009Here is Barbara Kennelly’s reaction to this weekend Health care reform vote in the House: “It’s impossible to exaggerate the importance of today’s health care reform vote for America’s seniors—it was historic. Closing the Part D doughnut hole, allowing government negotiation of drug prices in Part D and eliminating billions of dollars of wasteful subsidies [...]
America’s Seniors Need Health Care Reform
Thursday, November 5th, 2009The House expects to vote on health care reform this weekend. It’s hard to exaggerate how important this vote is for the future of Medicare, its long-term viability and the millions of American seniors who depend on it. If you, or a loved one, are covered under Medicare and have been sitting on the sidelines [...]