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In The News
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Help Us Choose Home
April 28, 2009
Please watch the video below and help us make home a choice available to you!
Virtually every American knows or loves someone who is ill, in declining health or living with a chronic medical condition who wants to stay in their own home while they receive treatment.
For all of us, the desire to remain where we are comfortable, especially during our most vulnerable moments, is natural. We want to feel safe and secure in familiar surroundings, close to our loved ones, while receiving high-quality, comprehensive care.
The decision to receive care at home rather than in an institution is a choice not everyone can make. For many people, it is simply not affordable. We need leadership in Congress to help make high-quality home care and hospice a meaningful part of health care reform and a reality for more Americans.
Our first priority must be to prevent the devastating Medicare cuts that have been proposed as part of a good-faith effort to bring health care coverage to all Americans. We are hopeful in this effort because there is strong bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for home care and hospice.
Every Little Bit Helps
There are many ways to get involved, all of which are appreciated more than you can imagine.
- Contact members of Congress to urge them to oppose home-health-care cuts in Medicare and preserve Medicare payments to home-health and hospice providers.
- Compose your own message to encourage the establishment of a chronic care management benefit under Medicare
- Tell Congress to reinstate the rural add-on, which will allow people who live in rural areas access to home care.
- Find your state home care and hospice association.
- Talk directly to your Senators and Respresentatives by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121. Tell them exactly how devastating these budget cuts will be.
- Visit the local offices of your Senators and Representatives.
- Share your positive experiences involving home care and hospice with your local media outlets and voice your opinion about the $13 billion Medicare budget cuts.
Help Us Choose Home
Take Action!
The Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley is proud to join the National Association for Home Care & Hospice in a campaign to prevent more than $13 billion in proposed cuts to Medicare home health care coverage over the next five years.
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