Health-Care Bill Secures Senate Vote

The Senate moved the health-care bill closer to passage by approving it with a 60-40 vote on Saturday. The $871 billion package had to overcome a Republican filibuster and Democratic holdouts.
“This is major reform,” White House senior political adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s not perfect. And over time, it [...]

Community Living Assistance Services and Supports

An ALFA-backed long-term care insurance initiative included in H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Healthy Choices Act of 2009 – better known as the House health care reform legislation, has recently come under fire from the life insurance industry.
The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) plan, a long standing measure crafted by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), [...]

Advocate Now, Provide for the Future

ALFA Update recently covered a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, which says the aging U.S. population could fuel an increased federal deficit. Between now and 2030, the number of adults over the age of 75 will double and the number over 85 will triple. But here’s the challenge: 60 percent of those older adults [...]

ALFA’s 2009 Year of the Advocate Reaches Hundreds on the Hill

The Assisted Living Federation of America held its annual advocacy fly on March 31st and it was an overwhelming success. Sixty advocates from across the country came to Capitol Hill and met with over 100 congressional offices. The in-person fly in was supplemented by a virtual fly in that resulted in nearly one thousand messages sent electronically on key issues.