National Committee Truth Squad: Healthcare Reform & Seniors

America’s seniors have a huge stake in the national health care reform debate. Unfortunately, well-financed misinformation campaigns have led many to fear health care reform will somehow threaten senior’s well-being. Nothing could be further from the truth! This is the second part of the National Committees Truth Squad video campaign BUSTING the myths about health care reform and Medicare.

Without health care reform, Medicare will continue to suffer from skyrocketing costs associated with general health care costs, until neither seniors nor the government will be able to afford the program. This inevitably will lead to unprecedented cuts in Medicare—cuts that unlike current health care reform proposals—will directly target Medicare beneficiaries.

National health care reform provides an historic opportunity for us to improve Medicare by closing the Part D doughnut hole, allowing government negotiation of drug prices in Part D and eliminating billions of dollars of wasteful subsidies to private insurers in Medicare. Ignoring Health Care Reform is not an option.