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Did you miss Behind the Headlines today?
We discussed:
- President Trump’s Rx proposal.
- Sen. Rand Paul’s budget resolution.
You watch the full segment by clicking here.
The House GOP’s budget is another attempt to pay down the deficit while targeting seniors, the disabled, & middle-class families during which billionaires and corporations enjoy their tax breaks & loopholes.
NEWS RELEASE
The Senate leadership has taken the first dangerous step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act. Repeal of the ACA will pull the plug on the 30 million Americans who now depend on it for health care — not to mention the 57 million seniors and disabled who benefit every day from the ACA’s improvements to Medicare.
Read more here.
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, has come a long way since its creation in 1965 when nearly half of all seniors were uninsured. Now the program covers 55 million people, providing insurance to one in six Americans. With that in mind, Medicare faces a host of challenges in the decades to come. Here’s a look at some of them.
via Kaiser Health News.
Related Reading:
- The Case for Expanding Medicare.
- Hearing Loss: The Economic, Social and Medical Factors Impacting Healthy Aging.
POLL:
20% of Americans support immediate
ACA repeal; 28% want to wait for a replacement plan;
47% oppose repealvia Kaiser Health News.
Related Reading:
Medicare beneficiaries will save, on average, $5,000 over the next ten
years thanks to health care reform provisions. Here are just a few of
the real-life benefits millions of seniors in Medicare would lose
immediately if Republicans have their way and repeal the Affordable Care
Act.
via NCPSSM.
In January 2010, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the federal health spending would total a bit more than $11 trillion between 2011 and 2020.
via VOX.
Related Reading:
How the Affordable Care Act Helps Seniors.
Supreme Court Decision Bad News for Seniors Who Depend on Home Health Care Providers.
Seniors need to pay careful attention to this next fact: if the GOP isn’t stopped from repealing healthcare reform, Medicare beneficiaries would immediately lose billions in prescription drug savings, wellness visits and preventative services with no out-of-pocket costs, and years of solvency will be lost to the Medicare program.
via NCPSSM.
Looking down the road, the majority in Congress has also proposed to privatize Medicare and raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67. These actions will reduce health care coverage and increase out of pocket costs for Iowa’s 572,000 seniors and people with disabilities.
Senator Romney’s legislation has no provisions to ensure that future #seniors’ earned benefits are adequate for the expenses they will face. #TRUSTact @RepJohnLarson https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/romneys-trust-act-is-back-again/