Sign the Petition to Save Home Health Care

Congress is proposing to drastically reduce Medicare reimbursement for home health services to the chronically sick and elderly. They plan on cutting $57 billion out of the Medicare home health benefit over 10 years. Home health represents only 4.5% of the total Medicare budget, but 11% of the proposed total cuts.

Home health is a key solution for lowering the cost of health care. It is the most cost effective way to care for the sick and elderly. More importantly, the sick and elderly want to stay in their home. They recover more quickly at home with family and friends. Without home health care, seniors will be readmitted into hospitals and transferred to nursing homes, both of which will put a greater financial burden on our Medicare system.

To our Elected Representatives in the United States Congress:

We, the undersigned patients, providers and supporters of home health care, want it publicly known that we demand that you do all that you can to save the home health community. If Congress follows through with drastic cuts to the Medicare benefit for home health care services;

• Thousands of patients will be forced into institutions
• Thousands of people will be put out of work
• Medicare will actually pay more for caring for many people than if the home care option were available
  

We ask you to educate yourself, join our cause, and convince your colleagues to protect home health care as Congress debates health care reform in Washington D.C. Protecting jobs and providing the best treatment possible for patients should be your top priority, and home health care is a key part of the solution.

Click here to sign the petition!