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Name: AARPCT
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Hartford, Connecticut
United States
Hartford, Connecticut
United States
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AARP Connecticut State Office (866) 295-7279 toll-free
AARP Connecticut State Office (866) 295-7279 toll-free
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AARP Connecticut 21 Oak St., Suite 104 Hartford, Conn. 06106
AARP Connecticut 21 Oak St., Suite 104 Hartford, Conn. 06106
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"What We Do, We Do For All" - Ethel Percy Andrus (founder, AARP)
"What We Do, We Do For All" - Ethel Percy Andrus (founder, AARP)
AARP Endorses Affordable Health Care for America ActHealth Reform Must Lower Medicare Costs, Improve Care
Summer vacation may be approaching fast for Connecticut school kids, but your AARP CT volunteers will be working hard on an advocacy blitz to improve the health care system. Keeping Medicare strong for current and future generations is a top priority. We want to lower costs for people on Medicare, while also eliminating waste, fraud and abuse that squander money, and result in medical errors and poor care.
Skyrocketing costs and our economic crisis are pricing millions of beneficiaries out of the care they need. Medicare patients now spend an average of 30% of their incomes on out-of-pocket health costs -- six times more than those with employer coverage
These runaway health costs burden families and the Medicare program itself. To address them, AARP supports an array of actions to contain costs, attack waste and make care more efficient. For example, AARP is also fighting to reduce unnecessary rehospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries. A recent study found that one in five people on Medicare who leave the hospital have to go back within 30 days, and about one-third have to go back within 90 days. These unplanned and often avoidable readmissions cost Medicare $17.4 billion in 2004.
A way to reduce them would be for Medicare to establish a follow up care benefit that helps patients transition home safely after a hospital stay. Under such a benefit, a team of health professionals could establish an individual plan for each patient, to make sure he or she gets adequate follow-up help -- including medication management and education -- to thrive after discharge to home or another facility.
These common-sense health reforms are not likely to be enacted without AARP’s leadership. We need your support and your voice to convince Congress to act on them. So please sign up today at www.healthactionnow.org.
Takoda says:
The fact that AARP is promoting this socialized medicine plan is despicable. It is not a good plan for senior citizens. Please read the plan before you buy into the hype. Don't take my word for it or the word of anyone else. You check it out for yourself.
Posted: August 5, 2009 4:06PM EDT
AARPCT says:
Celiao-
AARP has identified six priorities that we will be fighting to include in any final Health Reform Package passed by Congress. One of those priorities is closing the coverage gap in Medicare Part D- "the doughnut hole." We'll be posting more info on that subject next week. You should check out the website www.healthactionnow.org for more information on AARP's campaign and how you can help (by sending an email to your Congressperson, etc.)
Posted: May 14, 2009 4:37PM EDT
Celiao says:
I totally agree with everything above and that healthcare costs are astronomical. I personally wish I could hear more about how the pharmaceutical companies can be encouraged/trusted to lower prescription drug costs. It's the middle of May and I've got one more month's worth of Part D assistance then I'm in the "donut hole" for this year. This puts me back to scrimping and skipping doses until next year. It then takes about the 1st three months to get everything back to normal, then about 2 months of "wellbeing" and then back to juggling again. Is there any hope of eliminating that "donut hole"???? Can "people-in-the-know" give more info and/or address whether there's ANY hope for attacking this problem in particular???
Cecilia Osgood
Posted: May 14, 2009 2:32AM EDT
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