Maryland Senior Talks About the Donut Hole
Monday, June 7th, 2010Fran Garfinkle is a 70-year old retired small business owner and cancer survivor from Bethesda, Maryland. She’s among four million seniors who will be trapped in the Medicare Part D coverage gap known as the “donut hole” this year. Fran has seen first-hand how quickly retirement plans can change when confronted with skyrocketing health care costs, rising [...]
Still Confused about Health Reform?
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Many Medicare beneficiaries are and it’s no wonder given all the misinformation swirling around health reform legislation. Today Congressional leadership and the administration have teamed up to help seniors understand how health reform will impact Medicare. “Older Americans are dependent on Medicare for their health coverage. So seniors are especially susceptible to misinformation that Medicare is threatened [...]
Healthcare Reform is Good Medicine for Medicare
Monday, March 22nd, 2010With the House passage of health care reform legislation, we’ll soon be able to leave the political war of words behind and America’s seniors will see for themselves that the fear-mongering over healthcare was just that—an attempt to scare Americans away from reforms which could finally put providing care ahead of making profits. Reuters provides [...]
Don’t Forget Social Security and Medicare
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010We’re at a very important legislative crossroads on Capitol Hill. Congress is about to make another attempt at health care reform, a Presidential Commission has been appointed which will target Social Security and Medicare for cuts while at the same time Americans are still struggling in this difficult economy. I went to the Senate today [...]
“No” is NOT an Option for Seniors in Medicare
Friday, February 26th, 2010While “just say no” is a popular political slogan and now even a Congressional strategy for some in Washington, the effects of saying no to health care reform will be felt much sooner than later for millions of American seniors. Starting Monday, doctors serving patients in Medicare will face a 21% pay cut because the [...]
The Status Quo is Not an Option for Seniors in Medicare
Friday, January 22nd, 2010There’s been plenty of hand-wringing, Monday morning quarterbacking and fortune telling about what the Democrats’ loss of 60 votes in the Senate really means for health care reform. Any way you cut it…it can’t be good. The current system doesn’t work and we simply can’t allow political tide shifts to stop vital health care reforms. [...]
Health Care Reform and Medicare
Monday, December 14th, 2009The National Committee’s Policy Director, Maria Freese, talked to C-Span this weekend about Medicare, health care reform and the Senate proposal to allow younger adults to buy-in to Medicare. This is the beginning of the 30 minute segment. You can see the full segment on our website at www.ncpssm.org.
He Was in Favor of Medicare Cuts…Before He Opposed Them
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009The health care reform debate is underway in the Senate and it’s going to be a long hard slog for those trying to sort fact from fiction, spin from solutions and politics from profits. Consider exhibit #1. Senator John McCain’s amendment to send the health care bill back to the Finance committee to remove $491 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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