President Obama signed the fiscal cliff bill today but what does this mean for seniors?
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Max Richtman, President/CEO of the National Committee, was recently on PBS NewsHour speaking about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and its relation to the so-called fiscal cliff.
Click here or the graphic to watch the interview.
There was good news in this deal for seniors including: the end of the Social Security payroll tax holiday (which should never have been implemented in the first place), a one year doc fix preventing a massive cut in doctors’ Medicare reimbursements and extension of a number of Medicare programs that would have expired December 31st.
Washington Makes It Clear: Medicare Will Now Be Targeted to Pay Down Deficit via Entitled to Know.
Help us protect Social Security and Medicare benefits during the lame duck by signing our petition!
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A year of fiscal crises repeatedly threatened benefit cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The National Committee successfully prevented a Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) cut and an increase in the Medicare eligibility age from being written into the fiscal cliff bill. We also defeated efforts to continue the two-year-old Social Security payroll tax holiday that was undermining the Social Security system.
via Entitled to Know.
Social Security needs to be off the table during these fiscal cliff debates. The Chained CPI is a CUT to Social Security.
The billion dollar national campaign to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to reduce the deficit is an example of the old political saying: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” America doesn’t face an entitlement crisis. However, cutting benefits for middle-class and poor Americans remains the go-to solution for fiscal conservatives who see the congressionally created “fiscal cliff” as their golden opportunity to target these vital programs.
Max Richtman via USA Today.
However, some conservatives in Congress insist that relief for programs like the Older Americans Act be paid for by cutting Medicare and Medicaid. This budgetary sleight-of-hand could trade partial relief for some seniors’ programs by cutting other essential health security programs like Medicare and Medicaid, thus further eroding the tenuous economic situation many older Americans face.
Max Richtman via Huffington Post.
Americans Don’t Support Cutting Social Security & Medicare for Deficit Reduction – Even Wall Street-backed “Third Way” Agrees.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Americans do not support cutting Social Security and Medicare to pay down the debt.
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Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at National Committee event where volunteers will deliver petitions to Members of Congress urging them not to cut Social Security or Medicare.
“No cuts to Social Security! No Cuts to Medicare! No Cuts to Medicaid!” -Senator Sanders
(at United States Capitol Building)
On this date in 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the #ADA into law — making it easier for older Americans and others with #disabilities to get around at home, participate in their communities, and go to work. #ADA31