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 [...]

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 Touts Benefits of Assisted Living to USA Today

On May 26th, The USA Today published an opinion article by Howard Gleckman, a senior research institute at the Urban Institute, on Tuesday discussing the need to include long term care in national health reform. But Mr. Gleckman focused on the cost of skilled nursing care and never mentioned the benefits of assisted living. Tuesday, [...]

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