Your Resource for Protecting Senior Citizens
Number of the Day: 2017
The year when Social Security benefits will exceed program income.
Latest Senior News
- Pelosi Won't Give Public a Week to Review Text of Health-Care Bill Before House Votes on It
- Dodd And Kennedy Know, Trust, And More Than Ever Rely On Each Other
- LEADING THE NEWS--White House: Healthcare before climate bill
- White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won't rule out a health care reform bill that includes a middle-class tax hike.
- Physician Disputes Obama's Claim of 46 Million Uninsured Americans
Health Care Reform
The debate about health care reform proposals rages on and seniors are confronted with new information from all interests involved: managed care, prescription drug manufacturers, private practice practitioners, at home nursing care, for profit and not-for-profit hospitals, primary and secondary insurers, specialty care professionals and more.
The Medicare-eligible population is growing and with it, so are their needs and demands for access and choices in a system of quality, affordable health care. AFSC will do its best to bring you an unbiased perspective on what is really going on in the Congressional debate. We all have a stake in the outcome, and so we need to make our voices heard in the policy-making process.
When assessing proposed legislation, AFSC is committed to some core tenets: preserving access to care, empowering seniors to make choices between options, enabling medical technologies to develop without undue bureaucratic interference, and controlling the spiraling costs of health care to ensure the future health of the entire system.
We will begin posting analyses of competing plans here, so we urge you to check back frequently and stay informed. The stakes have never been higher.
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