"In response to the $2.7 billion cuts to Medicare that were passed by the U.S.
House of Representatives in the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act
(CHAMP Act), the long term care provider community today initiated an aggressive
TV and print campaign in Congressional districts across the country. The
campaign warns that proposed cuts will jeopardize ongoing quality improvements
in America’s nursing homes, threaten thousands of local health care jobs, and
irrationally return Medicare funding levels to those seen almost a decade ago."
I first want to say that I think this was one of the under reported weaknesses in the bill. Secondly, a step like supporting the bill is dangerous for politicians, because seniors vote, kids don't vote. Parents vote sometimes, when they have the time between everything else in their lives.
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