I’m a single mother and have always been a single mother except for the first year of my son’s life. I have always had a job and supported my son, but sometimes shared rent with family and friends for many of his first years. I finally got my own place while I was in my late 20’s. A place that I could afford on my own…..a trailer in a trailer park. It isn’t the perfect ...
The Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. is a national, non-profit organization that works on behalf of older people and people with disabilities to ensure fair access to affordable and comprehensive health care. We submit this statement for the record of the Hearing on the Health Care Law’s Impact on the Medicare Program and its Beneficiaries, held before the House Ways & Means ...
To: House Ways and Means Committee Hearing for Jobs for Unemployed You have no idea how hard it is to have been laid off for over 3 years. My most recent experience has been in social services and there are no jobs. These jobs depend upon excess money in the economy and charitable contributions. Obviously, ...
The Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) is the professional trade association that represents the interests of over 600 medical-surgical products distributor companies operating throughout the United States. Our members deliver life-saving healthcare products to more than 220,000 points of care including over 195,000 physician offices, 5,700 hospitals and 16,000 nursing ...
Chairman Camp,Americans want to work. The current political bantering is unacceptable and unproductive. Trickle down does not and never did work. History bears this out. We are facing actual (U6) unemployment number of well over 16%. No one disputes this. Yet, the heartless millionaire conservatives would allow decent hard working ...
LeadingAge commends the Ways and Means Committee for holding this hearing on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on seniors. We believe the new law has had a number of positive and significant effects on the delivery of health care and long-term services and supports to seniors, and we continue to support its implementation.LeadingAge is an association of 5,500 ...
Scott Carlson Title Hearing: Tell a Compelling story. Dear Committee, I had a job that was ok, I was making money even though it was not much, it was steady and I had it for 6 years.Then all of a sudden about 3 years ago, it was gone! I ...
The Medicare Rights Center is a national, independent nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through individual counseling and advocacy, educational programs and public policy initiatives. We provide services through six different hotlines to individuals, caregivers and professionals who ...
William Milner 2/13/11I have worked all my adult life and unfortunately I have been unemployed for the last almost two years,i LOOK FOR WORK EVERYDAY i have gone on three interviews and have received that secong call...Im respectfully ask that you pass this bill immediately we need the additional help !!!! PLEASE PASS THIS BILL!!!! PLEASE OASS ...
The National Partnership for Women & Families submits this written statement on the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on older women. The National Partnership is a non-profit, non-partisan consumer organization with 40 years of experience working to make life better for women and families by promoting access to quality health care, fairness in the workplace, and policies that ...