Straight Talk for Seniors®: FY18 Budget & Funding for Senior Programs
With Congress focused on health care and other issues, it’s easy to forget that they also have a deadline to fund government programs past the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. See highlights of where things stand.
Straight Talk for Seniors®: Senate Repeal Bill Collapses
The latest Senate attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut and cap Medicaid has collapsed. And a likely new strategy to repeal the ACA without any details on how to replace it also appears doomed.
ReadStraight Talk for Seniors®: The Senate Health Care Bill
Last week, the Senate released its bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Read our analysis of how it would affect our nation’s seniors.
ReadStraight Talk for Seniors®: How Medicaid Caps Would Impact Seniors
The health care debate is full of buzzwords and technical jargon that can make it hard to understand exactly how proposals would impact real people. Medicaid per capita caps is a good example. Learn how they would impact low-income seniors who depend on the program.
ReadStraight Talk for Seniors®: The Senior Community Service Employment Program
As policymakers talk about jobs, there’s only one program that provides job training and placement to low-income seniors. But the 52-year-old program is slated for elimination in the Administration’s budget.
ReadStraight Talk for Seniors®: 10 Ways the Administration’s Budget Would Impact Senior Programs
The White House released its first full budget proposal, and it includes historic cuts—and even elimination—of programs that older adults and their families have relied on for more than 50 years. See 10 senior programs that would be impacted.
ReadStraight Talk for Seniors®: The American Health Care Act
Last week, the House passed the American Health Care Act. The bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would affect millions of older Americans—but it also has a long way to go before becoming law.
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