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Happy Birthday Medicare!

What are you plans for Medicare's 42nd birthday? I have some suggestions.

  • You can read this comprehensive defense of the program at The Health Care Blog. 
  • You can  read any or all of the articles the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities have posted about the SCHIP/Medicare Advantage struggle that the White House has enjoined.

 

The SCHIP Debate:
  The Administration’s Dubious Claims about the Emerging Children’sHealth Insurance Legislation: Myth and Reality
Listen to Robert Greenstein, CBPP's Executive Director, discuss SCHIP on
the Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio
Policy Points
  The Week's Top Five Myths Regarding Congressional Efforts to Strengthen
Children's Health Coverage

After that, the best gift would be to pick up the phone to call your Senators to let them know that you support Medicare and want them to save it from privatization:

  1. DROP THE FILIBUSTER and allow the federal government to negotiate for lower prescription drugs
  2. STOP the overpayments to the Medicare Advantage plans
  3. PASS SCHIP and cover the 5 million uninsured children of America's working poor

on July 30, 2007 in Healthcare, Medicare Part D |

Tags: medicare, medicare advantage, medicare part d, SCHIP

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