Beth Faiman MSN, APRN-BC, AOCN Cleveland Clinic Taussic Cancer Institute Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio America’s Affordable Health Choices Act and Medicare: HR 3962 What does this mean to you?

What will the bill try to do?  The Bill focuses upon:  Providing coverage and choice  Affordability  Shared Responsibility  Prevention and Wellness  Workforce Investments

Medicare   The rising costs of health care are a burden on our families and a drain on our long-term economic growth.   If we continue on the course we are on, health care expenditures will reach 20 percent of GDP within a decade.   Rapidly rising health care costs are leading our nation down a fiscally unsustainable path.

Medicare   Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund extended to 2024   Reduce beneficiary premiums for physician and outpatient services by about $43 billion over the next 10 years.

Medicaid   Medicaid has been the remedy of both choice and necessity   Medicaid insures poor and sick, children and pregnant women, enables people with disabilities to achieve community integration   Also- treats uninsured women for breast or cervical cancer, compensates for Medicare's inadequacies in providing care for the elderly poor

Medicaid   Lacks a uniform definition of poverty for adults.   For children and pregnant women, the program establishes a national income-eligibility floor of 133% of the federal poverty level.   No similar floor for other adults   Income-eligibility threshold for those adults who do fall into existing coverage categories can be as low as 17% of the federal poverty level for working parents

Thoughts from the Group….. Thank you!