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 [...]
Now’s the Time
Friday, March 19th, 2010National Committee members and supporters have sent 12 thousand petitions to Capitol Hill urging Congress to pass health care reform, now. As the clock ticks and a health care vote is expected in the House within days, seniors are mobilizing to ensure their elected representatives understand that doing nothing is not a solution for our [...]
Age 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 [...]
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 [...]
National Committee Truth Squad Releases New Video
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Will health care reform hurt seniors? That’s the issue we tackle in the latest National Committee Truth Squad video. And it’s an issue that deserves more than just screaming town halls and soundbite answers. We’ve compiled all of our policy analysis on the various health care reform proposals and other important information on our Truth [...]
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, [...]
Happy Birthday Medicare
Thursday, July 30th, 200944 years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating Medicare. Given the current debate about system-wide health care reform and the role Medicare will play, now is the perfect time to reflect on the programs’ success in keeping millions of seniors and the disabled healthy. Our policy analysts have prepared The Future of Medicare: [...]
“MedPac on Steroids” or Permanent Entitlement Commission?
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009For many older Americans, the give and take necessary to pass meaningful and successful health care reform makes sense. That’s why we here at the National Committee have worked hard to mobilize their support for health care reform proposals that would improve efficiency and care for millions of Medicare beneficiaries while also providing savings for [...]
Medicare Reforms play Critical Role in Congressional Health Care Proposal
Thursday, July 16th, 2009“This Health care reform proposal is a pivotal step in Medicare reform. We now have a House bill which includes some important changes in Medicare to help control runaway health care costs for millions of seniors. Closing the Part D doughnut hole, improving low-income coverage and eliminating wasteful subsidies to private Medicare Advantage insurers are all [...]
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