AARP endorses plan for health care reform
AARP endorses plan for health care reformBy Carla Sloan For the Nevada Appeal After a lifetime of hard work, no older American deserves to spend their later years struggling with medical bills, foregoing or cutting prescription drugs to make them last or avoiding preventative or basic care because they can't afford the out-of-pocket costs. That is why AARP has been fighting so hard to ensure older Americans are getting the health care coverage they deserve.After carefully reading both the Affordable Health Care for America Act and the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act (HR 3962 and HR 3961), AARP's all-volunteer national board has endorsed these bills because they meet the critical needs of older Americans and future generations.For the more than 45 million Americans in Medicare - 320,000 in Nevada - the House plan makes prescription drugs more affordable by completely closing the dangerous gap in prescription drug coverage known as the doughnut hole, and allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to reduce prescription drug cost