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ALLIANCE MENTIONS- Alliance for Retired Americans Deputy Field Director Kate Stayman-London talked about the South Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans founding convention on WOIC 1230 AM Progressive Radio.
HEALTH CARE- The Bush administration appears to be softening a policy that states have complained hindered their efforts to expand health-care coverage for poor children under a popular state-federal insurance program.
- Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt did an interview with The Hill
LONG TERM CARE - Amid growing concerns about rising costs for older citizens, Pennsylvania joined a federally backed effort this year to encourage personal planning for long-term care.
MEDICARE- Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Wednesday said a Medicare package that would delay for 18 months a 10.6% cut to physician fees would cost between $15 billion and $18 billion over five years, prompting committee members to begin discussions on how to offset those costs POLITICS- Michigan Democratic leaders have settled on a plan to give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59 as a way to get the state's delegates seated at the national convention.
- Democratic leaders in Congress unveiled energy legislation yesterday targeting big oil companies and members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
- At least one political party is acting like it knows who the Democratic nominee will be: the Republicans, who have greatly stepped up their criticisms of Senator Barack Obama in recent weeks while practically ignoring Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
- The impact of Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" emerged as an intriguing point of debate, particularly in Indiana, where registered voters could participate in either party's primary, and where Clinton won by a mere 14,000 votes. PRESCRIPTION DRUGS- Rep. Bart Stupak and other Congressional Dems have been pushing for tighter rules on consumer drug ads.
SENIOR ORGANIZATIONS - Bill Novelli, Chief Executive of AARP, wrote a letter to the editor appearing in The New York Times on generic drugs. |
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ALLIANCE MENTIONS- Six Democrats and two Republicans told about 30 people gathered at a Maine Council of Senior Citizens/Alliance for Retired Americans forum about their plans to improve the state and country.
- The Indiana Alliance for Retired Americans is trying to help those who have lost their Medicaid benefits or food stamps. HEALTH CARE- More than 200 million children worldwide under age 5 do not get basic health care, leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a U.S.-based charity said Wednesday.
- The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
- The New York Times printed several letters to the editor in response to the recent article, “For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life’s End.”
- About 95,000 Americans now are 100 or older, census estimates show, and their closely watched numbers are predicted to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching 1.15 million by 2050. LABOR- President Bush will lash back at the Democratic-controlled Congress over its refusal to allow a vote on the Colombia free trade agreement during a speech to Latin American government officials on Wednesday. MEDICARE- The Senate Finance Committee launched on Tuesday the first of a series of at least eight hearings this year on overhauling the entire U.S. health care system, but former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson testified that the panel should first focus more narrowly on revamping Medicare.
- Congress should overhaul Medicare as part of an effort to transform the U.S. health care system, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson told the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday. POLITICS- Obama won North Carolina, while Clinton took Indiana in Democratic primaries yesterday.
- Last night's Democratic primaries followed a generally familiar script, with African Americans and new voters lifting Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) to a big win in North Carolina, while deep divisions along demographic lines produced a much tighter race in Indiana.
- About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
- Democrats have included legislation to postpone seven controversial new Medicaid regulations in the must-pass supplemental war spending bill. PRESCRIPTION DRUGS- Can you imagine how devastating it would be if you diligently saved for your retirement for years and years — and then watched your entire budget get wrecked by unexpected medical costs? |
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ALLIANCE MENTIONS- John Carr, President of the Maine Council of Senior Citizens-Alliance for Retired Americans is quoted in an article about a forum for Congressional candidates. HEALTH CARE- Sen. John McCain has been repeatedly suggesting that his Democratic rivals are proposing a single-payer, or even a nationalized health care system along the lines of those in countries like Canada and Britain.
- The potential for cuts has prompted public hospitals to lobby hard against the Medicaid regulation changes, and their efforts so far appear to have been highly effective.
- Grounded in research at the Dartmouth Medical School, slow medicine encourages physicians to put on the brakes when considering care that may have high risks and limited rewards for the elderly, and it educates patients and families how to push back against emergency room trips and hospitalizations designed for those with treatable illnesses, not the inevitable erosion of advanced age. LABOR- Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the union he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption, according to officials from the union and the Obama campaign. MEDICARE- Should “never events” really never happen? Eliminating some mishaps that should never happen is a laudable goal, but just isn’t possible 100% of the time, some inside the medical establishment say.
- State officials say they will soon ask Congress for more power to regulate the marketing of private Medicare insurance plans to older Americans because they are still receiving complaints of high-pressure sales tactics that have led some beneficiaries to sign up for unsuitable policies. POLITICS- For the second time in three months, a Democrat's victory in a House district previously held by Republicans is pointing to a difficult landscape for the GOP this fall.
- The economic worries of working Americans are moving to the front of the presidential campaign and congressional agendas, and that's changing the way Washington's lobbying machine works.
- The sharply contrasting health care visions of Republican John McCain and his Democratic presidential rivals offer the promise of a grand campaign debate -- if the candidates find room on a crowded agenda.
- Two days before critical primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) scolded both Sen. Barack Obama (D) and "elite opinion" Sunday for opposing her proposals to fix the ailing economy, while the senator from Illinois accused her of political pandering.
RETIREES - The documentary "Gotta Dance" follows a group of senior citizens as they audition and join a hip-hop dance troupe organized by the New Jersey Nets basketball team.
- Virtually unnoticed during the primary season, the baby boom generation turned 62 this year and began to draw Social Security benefits.
SENIOR ORGANIZATIONS - AARP is launching a major advertising and lobbying blitz on the Senate aimed at averting a huge jump in Medicare Part B premiums next year. |
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