Working Caregiver- Medicare Cuts Hurts Seniors
Targeting $2.7 Billion Medicare Cuts - Stand Up for Quality Nursing Home Care
With the upcoming proposed $2.7 billion cuts to Medicare that were passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act (CHAMP Act), the long term care provider community needs your help in contacting Congressional districts across the country. The proposed cuts will jeopardize ongoing quality improvements in America’s nursing homes, threaten thousands of local health care jobs, and irrationally return Medicare funding levels to those seen almost a decade ago.
Nursing homes have achieved significant quality improvements in recent years. The lawmakers need to understand the House-passed SCHIP expansion plan would undermine and even reverse those quality improvements. This law would harm not only the 1.7 million Americans who rely on quality nursing home care, but also the hundreds of thousands of dedicated caregivers around the country who provide care and services.
"These are the wrong cuts, at the wrong time, directed at the wrong population of vulnerable citizens,” said Bruce Yarwood, President and CEO of AHCA. “The overriding lesson of the past ten years is that when Medicare funding for skilled nursing services is stable, quality of care and services improves. When Medicare funding is cut drastically in the manner passed by the U.S. House, our nation’s long term care infrastructure deteriorates – to the detriment of the ‘Greatest Generation’ and all future retirees. While we support the broader objective of expanding children’s health insurance, it is irresponsible and unnecessary for the CHAMP Act to include major Medicare cuts to the care for our seniors.” | 
