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• Click here to read a copy of "Many Struggling With Health Plans" an August 24 letter to the editor of the Hartford Courant by Center Communications Coordinator Matthew Shepard.  The letter is in response to a piece by a beneficiary who was trapped in her private Medicare plan, and offers solutions to her problem.

• Click here to read "Sharing the Medicare Burden" a letter to the editor that appeared in the Washington Times on April 28.  The letter, by Michael Rubin of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, says that only by investing in each other can we become a society that protects and cares for those who have come before us.  He says that Medicare beneficiaries have always shared part of the financial burden for health care, as required by the law, contrary to some misconceptions -- including those of the HHS Secretary's son. 

• Medicare Bill A Boost For All - April 4, 2008

• Click here to read "For Medicare, 'modernization' means 'destruction'" a commentary by Judith Stein that appeared on Neiman Watchdog on March 10.  According to Stein, a critical question that reporters must consider is, "Will we keep giving away public money to private industry rather than toward necessary health care for older and disabled people?"  Stein says that little has been written in the mainstream media about the Administration’s persistent, remarkably successful effort to privatize Medicare. She says this story should be reported because traditional Medicare is almost universally cherished by Americans of all ages, on a level with Social Security.  In addition, the 2003 Medicare "Modernization" law was a major step toward the destruction of traditional Medicare; the 2003 law created an exclusively private prescription drug program, dramatically expanded the role of private Medicare plans, and authorized hundreds of billions of dollars to implement this move toward privatizing Medicare.

• Poor Older People Are Getting Poorer And Older: Does Anyone Really Care? - October 25, 2007

• The House Of Representative's CHAMP Act Is Good Medicine For All Generations - August 9, 2007

• Congress, Fix Medicare "Reform" Flaws First - July 24, 2007

• SNF CEO's Windfall Could Have Provided More Staff And Services - July 19, 2007

• Medicare For The Ages: All Ages - April 5, 2007

• Is It Time For Federal Regulation Of The Assisted Living Industry? - March 22, 2007

• Medicare Experience Supports Single-Payer Approach to Health Care (.pdf)
  Center For Medicare Advocacy Testimony Before The CT Insurance And Real Estate Committee - March 6, 2007

• About the President's Medicare Budget: Baby Boomers Unite!  You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Health Care! - February 8, 2007

• Part D Year One: Still Much To Be Done - January 17, 2007

• Bring Fairness And Fiscal Soundness Back To Medicare - November 30, 2006

• Privatizing Medicare: The Train Has Already Left The Station - October 19, 2006

• HHS Secretary's Press Release About 2007 Drug Plan Options Paints A Rosier Picture Than The Data Indicate - October 5, 2006

• Drug Prices Rising - May 28, 2006

• Letter From Ellen Lang Regarding Medicare Hospice Care - March 19, 2006

• "Fix Medicare; Don't Cut It" - A Letter From Executive Director Judith Stein - February 11, 2006

• "Dizzying Array" Of Part D Choices Is An Understatement - September 29, 2005

• Part D Choices: Sometimes Less Is More (.pdf) - September 1, 2005

• Medicare And Medicaid: 40 Years Of Success And Promises to Keep - July 28, 2005

• Judith Stein On Changes To The Medicare Appeals Process - "Medicare Change Will Limit Access To Claim Hearing", Robert Pear, The New York Times, April 24, 2005
  To read a beneficiary response to the article above, click HERE.

• Commentary By Attorney Mary T. Berthelot On Hospice - "Compassion To The Very End", Hartford Courant, April 2, 2005

• Gill Deford And Vicki Gottlich Cite CMS's Poor Practices - "Medicare Agency Must Be Fair, Accurate With Citizens", Gill Deford and Vicki Gottlich, Seattlepi.com, January 11, 2005

• Judith Stein And Senator Christopher J. Dodd Decry The Medicare Act - "The Wrong Way To Fix Medicare", Judith Stein and Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Hartford Courant, December 5, 2004

• "Bush Administration Plays Politics With Obesity" (PDF File) - Theodore S. Marmor, Newsday, August 17, 2004 (reprinted with permission of the author)

• Commentary By Judith Stein On The Medicare Act of 2003 (PDF File) - "Don't Give Medicare Away To Private Plans", Hartford Courant, February 10, 2004
  

• Reform Medicare, Don't Kill It - October 7, 2003

• Broken Medicare Promises - October 7, 2003

• Medicare Proposals For The Poor: A Bitter Pill - August 6, 2003
  

• The Truth About The Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation - July 18, 2003

• Senate: Support A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit That Is Secure, Valuable, And Available To All Medicare Beneficiaries - June 17, 2003
  

• House Of Representatives: Support A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit That Is Secure, Valuable, And Available To All Medicare Beneficiaries - June 17, 2003

• Administration Urged To Support Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit For All:
  President Bush Visits Connecticut - June 13, 2003
  

• Speak Out On The Medicare Drug Benefit: A Sample Letter To Your Congressman - May 7, 2003
  

• The Medicare Drug Bill Of 2003: A Close Look, By Professor Robert Asher - May 5, 2004

• A Stark Translation Of What The President Really Means When He Talks About His Plans For Medicare: Commentary By Congressman Pete Stark (D. CA) - January 30, 2003