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Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

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Page 1: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

Medicare,Health Reform,

and You

Page 2: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

Don’t Worry!The benefits that

Medicare guarantees will not change.

Page 3: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

What Will Reform Do?

• Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs

• Increase Access to Your Doctor

• Increase Medicare Security

Page 4: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

Health reform decreases

out-of-pocket costs.

Page 5: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

3 Ways Reform Decreases Your Costs

1. Gives relief in the doughnut hole

2. Makes preventive care more affordable

3. Offers more help to low-income beneficiaries

Page 6: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

Medicare Part D and the Doughnut Hole

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Growth of Doughnut Hole without Reform

$3,610

in 2009

$6,000

in 2016

Page 8: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

Reform Will Reduce or Close the Doughnut

Hole

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Reform Makes Preventive Care Affordable

• No more deductibles

• No more coinsurance

In other words . . .

free preventive care

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Reform Helps People with Limited Incomes• Makes it easier to enroll and

stay in: • Medicare Savings Programs• Part D low-income subsidy

• House Bill increases asset limits

• Helps low-income beneficiaries with premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance

Page 11: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

Health reform increases access

to your doctor and improves

quality of care.

Page 12: Medicare, Health Reform, and You. Dont Worry! The benefits that Medicare guarantees will not change

Don’t Worry!No one in between you

and your doctor

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Reform Does NotAuthorize “Death

Panels”• Death panels are a fabrication

• Reimbursement to doctors to talk to patients about end-of-life decisions

• Voluntary discussions

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Reform Improves Payments to Doctors

• Blocks cuts in physician payments

• Long-term additional reforms change payment plan for doctors

• Should encourage doctors to stay in the Medicare program.

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Reform Promotes Quality and

Coordination of Care• Promotes primary care

• Promotes coordinated payments among doctors and hospitals

• Encourages providers to work together

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Health reform increases Medicare security.

LifetimeGuarantee

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Reform Eliminates Overpayments

• Levels the playing field between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage• No cuts to guaranteed Medicare

benefits• Reduces overpayments to insurance

companies in Medicare advantage

• Helps sustain Medicare for future generations of Americans

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How Elimination of Overpayments Affects

You• Most people with Medicare will be

unaffected

• Medicare Advantage plans choose how to deal with cuts in overpayments

• They CANNOT cut guaranteed Medicare benefits

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Reform Extends Medicare’s Solvency

• Keeps Medicare Trust Fund in the black an additional 5 years

• Creates a center to test payment and service delivery models

• Allows Medicare to be around for future generations of Americans

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Wrap-up

• Lower out-of-pocket costs

• Better access to your doctor

• Increase Medicare security

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Questions?

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