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Beth Faiman MSN, APRN-BC, AOCN Cleveland Clinic Taussic Cancer Institute Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio America’s Affordable Health Choices Act and Medicare: HR 3962 What does this mean to you?
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What will the bill try to do? The Bill focuses upon: Providing coverage and choice Affordability Shared Responsibility Prevention and Wellness Workforce Investments
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Medicare The rising costs of health care are a burden on our families and a drain on our long-term economic growth. If we continue on the course we are on, health care expenditures will reach 20 percent of GDP within a decade. Rapidly rising health care costs are leading our nation down a fiscally unsustainable path.
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Medicare Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund extended to 2024 Reduce beneficiary premiums for physician and outpatient services by about $43 billion over the next 10 years.
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Medicaid Medicaid has been the remedy of both choice and necessity Medicaid insures poor and sick, children and pregnant women, enables people with disabilities to achieve community integration Also- treats uninsured women for breast or cervical cancer, compensates for Medicare's inadequacies in providing care for the elderly poor
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Medicaid Lacks a uniform definition of poverty for adults. For children and pregnant women, the program establishes a national income-eligibility floor of 133% of the federal poverty level. No similar floor for other adults Income-eligibility threshold for those adults who do fall into existing coverage categories can be as low as 17% of the federal poverty level for working parents
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Thoughts from the Group….. Thank you!
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