Letter to House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Brady conveying LCAO’s statement for the record for the hearing, “Examining Traditional Medicare’s Benefit Design”
Testimony for Ways and Means Medicare benefit redesign hearing
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Letter to Congress re: March Budget Debates
Letter to Congress letter regarding the upcoming budget debates, including the FY14 budget resolution deliberations. LCAO remains opposed to the level of nondefense discretionary cuts in the sequester and calls for any future deficit reduction to be balanced, protect vulnerable Americans and middle class families, and ask more from those best able to contribute toward deficit reduction. Specifically, LCAO calls for:
1. A Balanced Approach that Includes Revenues
2. No Harm to Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries
3. Protecting the Promise of Social Security
LCAO Medicare Eligibility Age Issue Brief
LCAO Issue Brief articulating concerns with proposals to raise the eligibility age for Medicare.
LCAO Senate Letter on Sequester
LCAO Chair Letter to the Senate urging replacement of the sequester with a balanced approach to deficit reduction, and expressing support for the American Family Economic Protection Act
LCAO Income Related Premiums Issue Brief
January 2013
LCAO Issue Brief articulating rationale for opposition to further income-relating (means testing) Medicare premiums which will negatively impact more middle-income individuals and do nothing to rein in overall health care costs.
LCAO Income Related Premiums Issue Brief
LCAO Fact Sheet re: Medicare Public Opinion Surveys
Updated February 2013
LCAO Fact Sheet regarding public opinion survey results related to proposals to cut Medicare.
Letter to the Social Security Administration regarding Transgender Identification Issues
Letter to SSA Commissioner Astrue urging the agency to change its policies regarding evidentiary standards required of transgendered individuals when they wish to change their
birth-assigned gender identification in Social Security Administration administrative records.
LCAO Letter to Congress regarding the Chained Consumer Price Index Proposals
LCAO letter to Congress regarding opposition to Chained Consumer Price Index Proposals.
Press Release re: LCAO Budget Principles
December 13, 2012
Press release regarding transmittal of LCAO Budget Principles to the President and Congress for consideration during year-end budget negotiations (“fiscal cliff”).
Letter to President re: Budget Principles
December 13, 2012
Chair’s letter to President conveying LCAO Budget Principles related to year-end budget debate (“fiscal cliff”).