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• Novemb 22-28, 1987, Michigan CHizen
io c· izens an
eal
bill cleaned up
Committee to Pre rve Social
Securityand edicare.
"0 nior • for example,
have no idea thi bill provides
absolutely no protection again
the cost of long-term care,"
he said. 'Considering the fact
that 80 p rcent of catastro­
phic care ex pen are long­
term care cost, it is absurd
to call the Hou measure
'catastrophic care' bill."
The national media ha,
"failed to 100 beyond the
press relea s" in ignoring th
fact that senior, "would face
substantially increased premiums
for marginally improved cover­
age that does not address their
central health care needs",
Roo velt said. 'Most niors
don't understand what has hap­
pened in the House becau
the media has been satisfied
to report glowing accounts made
by the very people who crafted
this legislation."
Roosevelt criticized the
Hou for loading the full
financing of the few coverage
improvement offered, onto the
elderly. "We wouldn't a
only veteran to play for VA
hospitals or only parents to
pay for schools but the Hou
has passed a bill which will
put the entire co of new
health coverage on seniors al­
ready burdened with tremen­
dous health care cost "
The ational Committee ha
recently mailed more than
million "Legislative Alerts" to
its most active members, Roose­
velt said. "We're ing them
to flood the Senate with the
me ge that nior are not
satisfied with wh t the Hou
h accomplished and that we
want an improved legislative
p ckage."
The Hou bill is not withou
it good points, Roo viet said.
It would cap Medicare approved
hospital and physician costs at
1,798 annually. Eighty per­
cent of the co of pre ription
drug will be covered at a
500 annual deductible is met
and spou of nursing home
patient will have limited· pro­
tection of both income and
at.
ational Committee To Pre-
rve Social Security and edi­
care, 1300 19th St., .W.,
Suite 501, Washington, D.C.
20036. Phone (202) 822-
9459.
SH GTO , D.C. - The
chairman of the • nation'
cond large t nior member-
ship organization called upon
• the Senate to clean up the de­
fect in the Hou -approved
cata rophic care bill - defect
he id the nation's media had
not adequately reported.
o nior are unaware of
the gaping hol in coverage
offered in the Hou bill or of
wh t it will cost them, said
Jame Roo velt, Chairman of
the 4.5 million-member ational
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