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National
Coalition to Protect Senior Care, National
Association of Health Care Assistants hold
briefing protesting Bush Administration
Medicare cuts
Front-Lline Skilled
Nursing Facility Caregivers from across the
nation Call on Congress to Protect Seniors
by Preserving Medicare - Urge Lawmakers to
reject Medicare cuts
In response to the Bush
Administration's plans to cut U.S. seniors'
Medicare-financed nursing home care in the
FY 2009 budget, the Coalition to Protect
Senior Care (CPSC) and the National
Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA)
held a press briefing on Thursday to call on
Congress to fight the cuts, as both groups
did last fall when they successfully opposed
congressional efforts to cut Medicare Part A
nursing home benefits.
Medicare costs are
substantially rising due to growing numbers
of retirees in need of more healthcare
services.
However, the
President's budget plan shared on Monday
would unreasonably cut $196 billion in
funding for Medicare and Medicaid -- the two
programs that provide most medical care for
the elderly and poor -- over the next five
years.
Further, most of
the budget savings would be generated by
freezing the rates Medicare pays for
hospital, nursing home and hospice services
for the next three years.
The CPSC and NAHCA --
representing health care assistants, long
term care nurses, certified nursing
assistants and others who deliver
round-the-clock, front-line care to seniors
-- will discuss how these dangerous funding
cuts would harm overall patient care for
seniors while disproportionately impacting
women, rural seniors, the caregiver
community, and others, and will share how
they plan to work with their caregiver
members to fight these cuts.
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