Center for Medicare Advocacy

Advancing Access to Medicare and Healthcare

Main Content

  • Count On Us

    We remain open and fully operational – although most of our staff are working remotely. Our phones, email, and online contact forms are available.

    Count On Us

  • Medicare at 55

    The Medicare program must be expanded, but in a manner that provides better coverage and cost-sharing protections for all beneficiaries.

    Medicare at 55

  • 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.

    COVID-19 and Medicare

  • Podcast with Judy Stein: Moving Forward with COVID-19 and Medicare

    Center for Medicare Advocacy Executive Director Judy Stein joins journalist Mark Miller to discuss what the pandemic is teaching us about ways to improve Medicare.

    Podcast with Judy Stein: Moving Forward with COVID-19 and Medicare

  • 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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    Our Commitment to Justice

For Your Consideration…

Propel the Center

Help Propel the Center

When you support the Center for Medicare Advocacy, you share in its vital work to advance access to Medicare and quality health care – now and in the future. Donors, before the end of this year, will energize and sustain the Center in the challenging year ahead. We realize there are many urgent causes in the world today, but we also know the Center opens doors to necessary health care, which is particularly crucial now. The Center’s unique advocacy, education, and responsiveness to the needs of families all over the country are important and we can make an impact for them together.

To help propel the Center donate here.

Events

CMA Webinars

Current issues in Medicare & health care, and your questions answered live.

Next Webinar, February 3, 2021:

Medicare & Health Care Updates

Join us as we examine - and try to make sense of - what's happening in the Medicare and related health care world, including impacts of COVID-19, from the perspective of beneficiary advocates.

See Our Full 2020-2021 Schedule - and Register Now!

National Medicare Advocates Alliance

The Center for Medicare Advocacy's National Medicare Advocates Alliance provides Medicare advocates with a collaborative network to share resources, best practices, and developments of import to Medicare beneficiaries throughout the country. The Alliance is supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation.

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Recent News

Center for Medicare Advocacy Issues Transition Memorandum

Medicare Improvements for the Biden Administration

In a Memorandum submitted to Transition leaders on December 18, we recommend a number of measures that the incoming Biden Administration can take to strengthen Medicare immediately for all beneficiaries.

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Strengthen Medicare to Build Back Better

By prioritizing Medicare beneficiaries and the health systems that serve them, we can avoid drastic national consequences. The Center for Medicare Advocacy proposes a five-part plan that will make Medicare a bulwark against the worsening health and economic challenges facing the American people.

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Improve Medicare for All Beneficiaries

Medicare is extremely popular, but it needs attention to ensure all beneficiaries receive comprehensive coverage and equitable treatment. The Medicare program that Americans know and cherish has been allowed to wither. Traditional Medicare, preferred by most beneficiaries, has not been improved in years, yet private Medicare Advantage plans have been repeatedly bolstered. It’s time to build a better Medicare for all those who rely on it now, and will in the future.

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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.

Download the Issue Brief.