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President Biden’s New Medicare and Medicaid Chief can be a

WEBIt’s a historic week for Medicare and Medicaid – and for American women. On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as the new administrator of …

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Aging, Health, and Care: What You Need to Know

WEBLong-Term Care. One in three Americans over 65 will need some type of long-term care as they age. Nursing home care can cost from $5,000 – 20,000 per month. Medicaid covers …

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Q&A About Medicare Part B Premium

WEBThe 2021 standard premium for Medicare Part B health coverage is $148.50 an increase of $3.90 from $144.60 in 2020. For most retirees, the cost increase will claim a significant …

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Hispanics and Medicare

WEBThe Low-Income Subsidy (LIS), also known as “Extra Help,” assists some low-income seniors (annual income less than $20,385 for an individual or $27,465 for a married …

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Medicaid Expansion Benefits States and Beneficiaries

WEBThe National Committee supports Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act because it provides health coverage access to millions of low-income adults who are …

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Improving the Medicare Home Health Benefit

WEBThere are three broad categories of solutions to improve the Medicare home health benefit, including 1) enforcing the current law; 2) improving benefits and 3) …

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It Took Political Will to Enact Medicare 56 Years Ago Today

WEBOn this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare (and Medicaid) into law, providing hundreds of millions of Americans with health coverage …

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Raising Medicare’s Eligibility Age: A Costly Benefit Cut for Seniors

WEBRaising the age of eligibility for Medicare from 65 to 67 is a benefit cut. It is being advanced solely for budgetary considerations – to reduce the rate of growth in Medicare spending …

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The President’s FY 2022 Budget Impacts Seniors Now and in

WEBThe President proposes $14.2 billion for SSA’s FY 2022 appropriation for administrative funding. This is an increase of $1.3 billion — nearly 10 percent – over the …

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Medicare and Medicaid are Important to Hispanic Americans

WEBMedicaid is an especially important source of health insurance for low-income Latinos. In 2018, Medicaid provided coverage to 17.3 million Latino Americans, …

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How the Affordable Care Act Helps Seniors

WEBBelow are some of the ways that the Affordable Care Act is helping seniors. Lower-Cost Prescription Drugs. Since passage of the ACA, more than 10.7 million …

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Medicare and Medicaid Are Important to African Americans

WEBAfrican Americans, who make up the third largest racial/ethnic group in the United States, are likely to have more chronic or serious health conditions and have …

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Medicare and Means Testing

WEBViewpoint. January 17th, 2020. In the past few years, Congress has passed legislation that includes proposals for further means testing Medicare – that is, requiring higher-income …

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Women and Retirement: The Gender Gap Persists

WEBThe Employee Benefit Research Institute estimates that in 2019, a 65-year-old man would need $79,000 in savings and a 65-year-old woman would need $104,000 …

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$35 Insulin Cap Would Save Seniors Money, But Leave Drug

WEBThe U.S. House took a big step toward saving seniors money on a life-saving drug. On Thursday, lawmakers voted to enact a $35 cap on the cost of insulin for “most …

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Medicare Advantage Provisions in the Affordable Care Act

WEBThe Affordable Care Act (ACA), also referred to as “Obamacare,” includes important provisions to reduce wasteful Medicare spending. This will strengthen the …

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American Workers and Welfare Queens

WEBOur Issues. Social Security; Medicare; Medicaid; Older Americans; What We Do. Letters and Testimony; Take Action; Eleanor’s Hope; Delay and Gain; Scorecard; …

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Disability Insurance and Survivors

WEBIn 2019, about 177 million workers earned life insurance and disability protection by making Social Security payroll tax contributions. Currently, about 96 percent of people aged 20 …

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Letter of Endorsement for Mikie Sherrill

WEBAugust 23, 2018 Ms. Mikie Sherrill c/o Mikie Sherrill for Congress P.O. Box 43032 Montclair, NJ 07043 Dear Ms. Sherrill: The National […]

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Will Privatization Force Traditional Medicare Out of Business

WEBBetween 2009 and 2021, the government paid Medicare Advantage plans $140 billion more than it would have if the same patients had stayed in traditional …

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From the November 2016 issue “Don’t Touch My Medicare!”

WEBthat beneficiaries were on the hook for 20 percent of the cost for radiation treatment and 20 percent of the cost for chemotherapy , up to the $6,700.

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