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Las Vegas, Nevada
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AARP State Office-Serving Nevadans statwide through information, advocacy, and community service.
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"What we do we do for all." Ethel Percy Andrus, Founder

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With its great resources and strength, AARP helps our more than 328,000 Nevada members make their own choices, reach their goals and dreams, and make the most of life after 50. AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to enhancing quality of life for all generations through positive social change. AARP?s vision is to excel as a dynamic presence in every community, shaping and enriching the experience of aging for each member and for society. AARP unveiled Divided We Fail (www.dividedwefail.org), a national effort designed to engage the American people, elected officials and the business community to find broad-based, bi-partisan solutions to the most compelling domestic issues facing the nation?health care and the long-term financial security of Americans. In Nevada, we have had a tremendous presence with Divided We Fail during the 2008 Caucuses . Look for more divided we fail activities in 2008.

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Affordable Rx Drugs, 50+ Workers, & Divided We Fail - access to affordable, quality health care and lifetime financial security.
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AARP NEVADA KEY VOTE NEWS ALERT

  

Note:  AARP is recording House and Senate roll call votes on key issues throughout the 110th Congress, and informing its nearly 40 million members
of the results of these key votes.
 
AARP Thanks Congress for Keeping Medicare Fair, Overriding White House Veto
Bipartisan Bill Improves Low-Income Help and Boosts Quality through National E-Prescribing, Helps Ensure Access to Doctors
 
SUMMARY: Today the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate voted overwhelmingly to override a White House veto and pass important Medicare legislation.  The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act will improve Medicare’s low-income programs, boost health care quality with a system of national e-prescribing, and help ensure the access of patients to their doctors.
 
NEVADA
VOTED YES TO PASS MEDICARE BILL
VOTED NO ON MEDICARE BILL
REPRESENTATIVES
 
 
Berkley, Shelley
YES
 
Heller, Dean
YES
 
Porter, Jon
YES
 
 
 
 
SENATORs
 
 
Reid,  Harry
YES
 
Ensign, John
 
NO
 
 
 
*Did not vote
** How a legislator votes on issues is only one factor in evaluating his or her legislative performance, which should also include such things as constituency services and committee work.
 
“Today’s vote is a victory for the 44 million Americans who depend on Medicare, and we applaud Senator Reid and Representatives Berkley, Heller and Porter for  their continued support,” said Barry Gold, Nevada director for government relations. “This bipartisan legislation will help more Americans afford their health care bills while bringing doctors offices and pharmacies into the 21st century with e-prescribing.”
 
Gold added: “We are disappointed that Senator Ensign voted against this important legislation.  This bill would begin to bring down health care costs for millions of Americans, while reducing dangerous drug interactions with electronic prescriptions.”
 
AARP has been advocating for several months to ensure that lawmakers keep Medicare fair for the people who depend on it when Congress addresses physician payment cuts.  AARP has also been advocating for this bill’s improvements to Medicare, particularly the low-income programs and electronic prescribing.
 
Since launching the “Keep Medicare Fair” initiative in April, AARP’s grassroots volunteers and activists have sent more than 1.2 million messages to Congress and the White House.  As part of this effort, an AARP survey released May 19 found that of adults 50-plus, 81 percent oppose additional increases to Medicare premiums and 66 percent are less likely to vote for a Member of Congress who supports those increases.
 
AARP notified the 110th Congress that it was tracking roll call votes on key legislation important to its 39 million members and reporting the outcomes of these votes back to its members.
 
“We believe people make the right choices when they understand the issues and positions taken by their elected officials.  AARP intends to ensure that its members get that information,” Gold concluded.
 
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole.  AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to either political campaigns or candidates.  We produce AARP The Magazine, the definitive voice for 50+ Americans and the world's largest-circulation magazine with over 33 million readers; AARP Bulletin, the go-to news source for AARP's 39 million members and Americans 50+; AARP Segunda Juventud, the only bilingual U.S. publication dedicated exclusively to the 50+ Hispanic community; and our website, AARP.org.  AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors.  We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
 
Added: July 17, 2008
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