Live Chat on Health Reform and Seniors
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Assistant Secretary for the Administration on Aging Kathy Greenlee will host a webchat tomorrow, Thursday, April 8, to talk about health reform and its impact on America’s seniors. From the HHS news release: Sebelius and Greenlee will highlight some of the immediate benefits of health reform for America’s seniors before [...]
What’s Next on Health Care Reform?
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009The Senate is expected to wrap up it’s health care debate tomorrow morning and then it’s off to conference committee. Some lawmakers, particularly those who feel too much has been given away in the Senate health care bill, hope there might be changes in the conference version of the health care bill. That certainly doesn’t [...]
Enjoy This New Health Care Reform Ad…We Did!
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 [...]
Town Hells and Medicare
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Fear sells. Fear motivates. Fear scares people into acting worse than they would allow a toddler to behave. But, as we’ve seen in recent coverage of Congressional Town Halls gone wild, fear does not produce intelligent discourse, constructive consultation or anything of real value to the current debate on health care reform. For American seniors, [...]
House Health Care Reform and Medicare
Monday, August 3rd, 2009We’ve now got specifics from the House on their version of health care reform legislation. The National Committee has worked hard to mobilize support for Medicare proposals that would improve efficiency and care for millions of Medicare beneficiaries while also providing savings for system-wide health care reform efforts. As President Obama has said, America does not [...]
Medicare Overhaul Proposed
Thursday, April 30th, 2009It’s not surprising that quality control and improving payment processes for Medicare were among the first items tackled by the Senate Finance Committee in their newly unveiled health care reform strategy, entitled “Description of Policy Options.“ Chairman Max Baucus told reporters: “Almost all health providers agree that the we are taking the right approach…The concerns are [...]
Looking for Any Opportunity to Target Social Security
Friday, March 6th, 2009It’s hard to imagine how, after sitting through hours of discussion about health care reform at yesterday’s White House summit, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell chose Social Security as his very first comment on the event. For a split second, we thought maybe he forgot which summit he was actually attending (last week’s was Fiscal [...]
Slashing Medicare & Medicaid Not the Answer
Monday, October 6th, 2008A senior policy advisor with the McCain campaign says they’ll use major cuts in Medicare and Medicaid to pay for the McCain healthcare plan if he’s elected President. According to the Wall Street Journal, independent analysts estimate those cuts at $1.3 trillion over 10 years. “It is irresponsible and unrealistic to believe America’s poor and [...]