Health Care Reform Will Not Weaken Medicare

Last week at a Florida health care forum, Alliance President Barbara Easterling outlined how health care reform will strengthen Medicare. It will:

• Close the “donut hole” in Medicare Part D, the one that guarantees insurance companies keep getting their monthly premiums even when they aren’t giving you any benefits.

• Allow Medicare to negotiate for volume discounts with the drug companies.
  

• End wasteful taxpayer subsidies to the private insurance companies who run Medicare Advantage plans.

• Keep you healthier by eliminating the co-pay for Medicare preventive services such as checkups and cancer screenings.

• Offer an opportunity for early retirees to buy into Medicare

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