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Medicare: Build Back Better
The Medicare program must be expanded, but in a manner that provides better coverage and cost-sharing protections for all beneficiaries.
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COVID-19 and Medicare
As the nation and the world continue to struggle with COVID-19, we will continue to compile information on the virus as it relates to Medicare.
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Our Commitment to Justice
Black Lives Matter. The Center for Medicare Advocacy mourns for George Floyd and for the named and unnamed people of color who have been murdered or harmed in countless ways in our country. We mourn for our country. We protest.For more than thirty years, the mission of the Center has been to ensure fair access to Medicare and health care for all. FAIR. FOR ALL. We can’t separate ourselves from the greater fight for fairness, for justice – for all.
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Ensuring Medicare’s Financial Health
This Issue Brief by Center for Medicare Advocacy Visiting Scholar Marilyn Moon reviews the fiscal solvency of Medicare and the Part A Trust Fund.
Since Medicare was introduced, the role of payroll taxes has been declining. There has been a major shift of spending from Part A, which is largely financed by payroll taxes, to Part B which is financed by general revenues and premiums. If payroll is a declining share, then the tax base is not keeping up with economic growth and may become less adequate over time, which is relevant in deciding whether to continue to rely on the payroll tax to fund the Medicare Trust Fund.
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Issue Brief
Medicare Home Health Coverage: Reality Conflicts with the Law
Under the law, Medicare coverage is available for people with acute and/or chronic conditions, and for services to improve, or maintain, or slow decline of the individual’s condition, and such coverage is available even if the services are expected to continue over a long period of time. Unfortunately, however, people who legally qualify for Medicare coverage frequently have great difficulty obtaining and affording necessary home care.
Report Documents Causes and Cures for COVID-19 Crisis in Long-Term Care Facilities
Geography Is Not Destiny: Protecting Nursing Home Residents from the Next Pandemic
Residents’ deaths were not “inevitable”, as some have claimed. COVID-19 exploited and exacerbated long-standing issues, such as staffing, infection control, and management problems, that existed for decades in the long-term care industry.
Key Medicare and Related Issues for Biden Administration
In a Memorandum submitted December 18, we recommend a number of measures that the Biden Administration can take to strengthen Medicare immediately for all beneficiaries.
Issue Brief Regarding Medicare and Family Caregivers
Written with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation as part of collaborative work to advance the RAISE Family Caregivers Act, our Issue Brief,Medicare and Family Caregivers, explores the role Medicare does, and could, play in supporting older and disabled beneficiaries and their caregivers.