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National Senior Citizens Law Center
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Can a red pillow and a lava lamp make a nursing home more like home?... [Read More]
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In oral arguments last month in two pending cases, the Court’s most conservative justices appeared ready to drastically cut back protections for workers who blow the whistle on discrimination.... [Read More]
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Assisted living facilities do not necessarily live up to the image evoked by their name. Older persons and their family members need to be particularly careful in selecting an assisted living facility and, after admission, in demanding adequate, personalized care.... [Read More]
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From the beginning the Part D program has been endlessly complex and confusing, with plenty of protections for Part D private insurers and few for those in greatest need.... [Read More]
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Reading the proposed changes to the appeals process would readily put most readers to sleep as they are awash in a host of new technical requirements, barely intelligible to lawyers practicing in the field. However, the cumulative effect of these new rules will make it more difficult for those who most need the benefits to succeed in their appeals.... [Read More]
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by Gene Coffey, NSCLC I had the privilege last month to speak at a conference in Louisville that was hosted by a Kentucky-based coalition called Advocates to Reform Medicaid Services (“ARMS”). The conference was devoted to identifying the best methods for ensuring choice and independence for individuals in need of long-term care, a topic that is becoming more pressing with each passing day. Just how... [Read More]
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There is virtually no focus on the role that the judicial branch has played, can play, and will play in ensuring – or undermining – the access of American citizens to affordable and adequate health care.... [Read More]
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After a steady stream of reports, newspaper investigations and television exposes, why are so many nursing homes so bad, and why are the majority of nursing homes so predictably mediocre?... [Read More]
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When examining the subsidies provided to plans and the questionable benefits to beneficiaries, it begins to look like the safety net that is getting shredded is protecting insurers, not beneficiaries.... [Read More]
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In 5-4 decision after 5-4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts has scorned the kind of "modest," "consensus"-seeking course he charted in his confirmation hearing and a number of media interviews following his confirmation.... [Read More]
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Social Security is busily terminating benefits to individuals settled in place who are not going, let alone fleeing, anywhere. In fact, in Macon, Georgia, Social Security has suspended benefits for at least three people who were determined to have fled to nursing homes. One of these cases involved a 25-year-old charge of failing to pay a motel bill. The nursing home resident never even knew that charges... [Read More]
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...[W]hile our own responsibilities will increase in the coming years, we will need our government to partner with us in facing this vital task. Shouldn’t we be able to rely on this? Unfortunately, some recent stories seem to indicate that we have reason to be concerned.... [Read More]
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So the drunken Chi Psi fraternity brothers thought they were being filmed for an obscure documentary, and didn’t realize they would be laughed at by moviegoers from Maine to Malibu? Too bad, so sad--the movie company reports that it has signed releases from the frat guys...... [Read More]
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Reform legislation should and can be enacted in California this year, and action by the country’s most populous state should also advance the nation toward a longer term national solution.... [Read More]
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Although in 2004 and 2005, Americans resoundingly rejected using Social Security funds for individual PIAs, this administration remains determined to alter the very nature of the system. We had better pay attention to what is being said and done.... [Read More]
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Much that is good for older people has happened in the over the past 75 years. In the early 1930's, to be old was to be poor. In the “Great Depression,” many struggled, but older people suffered in higher proportions. More than one-half of those 65 and over lived in poverty, without health insurance and unable to afford health care. Younger people were saddened and humiliated to see the plight of their... [Read More]
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