Health Care Reform Update
Sarah D'Orsie of the BIAA advises as follows:
Health Care Reform Update
This week the Senate worked towards combining two health care reform drafts, one from the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee and the other from the Finance Committee, into one final version. BIAA, as a part of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) coalition, submitted a letter to Senate leadership asking to ensure that several provisions important to the brain injury community are included in this final version of the bill.
The letter outlines several priorities such as the need for private insurance reform, improvements to Medicaid and long terms services and supports, and clarifications to the Medicare program. For further reading, the full text of the letter can be found on our web site: http://www.biausa.org/elements/policy/2009/ccd_hcreform_letter.pdf
As the Senate works to combine its measures into one bill, BIAA will monitor the progress and alert grassroots advocates if action becomes necessary.
