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Over 120 Patient Advocacy Groups Support Legislation To Eliminate Two-Year Medicare Waiting Period
The Coalition to End the Two-Year Wait for Medicare, over 120 organizations who work to ensure access to health care for people with disabilities, enthusiastically supports the introduction of Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2009, S.700 and H.R.1708, which would eliminate the unjustifiable two-year delay in coverage for people with severe disabilities who are waiting to become eligible for Medicare coverage.
Advocacy Groups Attack Possible HHS Nominee Tennessee Gov. Bredesen Over Medicaid Cuts
Health care advocates are “actively campaigning” against the possible nomination of Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) for HHS secretary, arguing that cuts he made to Tennessee’s Medicaid program go against President Obama’s intentions to expand health care coverage, the
Center For Medicare Advocacy Applauds Bill That Would Add Prescription Drug Coverage To The Traditional Medicare Program
Vicki Gottlich, Senior Policy Attorney for the Center for Medicare Advocacy, will join Congressman Marion Berry (D-AR), Congressman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) in a joint conference call today, January 27, 2009 at 4 p.m. EST, to discuss the Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2009. The Bill would establish one or more drug plans in the traditional Medicare program that would compete with the current, exclusively private Part D drug plans.
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