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Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care: Cumulative Medicare, Medicaid Funding Reductions to Lowest Margin Provider Causing Growing Concern About Facility Closures, Job Losses
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care today praised a letter from the Congressional Task Force on Seniors to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction stressing the need to, first, protect seniors' ongoing access to quality care by ensuring Medicare and Medicaid funding adequacy to providers is preserved, and, second, reject what the Alliance says are "shortsighted" proposals to shift Medicare costs to beneficiaries. The Task Force is Co-Chaired by U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Doris Matsui (D-CA).See the full content of this document
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Cost-Sharing Proposals
"The Congressional Task Force on Seniors letter to the Super Committee is precisely correct to point out that U.S. seniors' ongoing access to quality...
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