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AARP Reveals Six Health Care Reform Priorities
By: State: Delaware | Source: AARP.org
As Congress hammers out the details of health-care reform, AARP announces six specific elements that must be part of health reform. They are:
- Guaranteeing access to affordable coverage for Americans age 50-64
- Closing the Medicare Part D coverage gap or "doughnut hole"
- Preventing avoidable re-hospitalizations and improve patient care by providing people in Medicare with a follow up care benefit to help them safely transition home after a hospital stay;
- Increasing federal funding and eligibility for home- and community-based services through Medicaid, so older Americans can remain in their homes as they age and avoid more costly institutional care;
- Creating access to generic versions of costly biologic drugs used to treat cancer and other serious illnesses; and
- Improving programs that help low income Americans in Medicare afford the health care and prescription drugs they need
These elements of health reform are not likely to be enacted without AARP’s leadership. We need you to lend your support and your voice to this effort. You can learn more and share your thoughts by logging on to our new health reform website at www.healthactionnow.org. While AARP stands ready to lead, we don’t pretend to have all the answers. That’s why we are seeking your stories, opinions, and ideas. Please join with us in this historic opportunity to make a difference.
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