Category Archives: Medicare

NDY Files Public Comment On Federal Healthcare Interim Final Rule In Response To COVID

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NDY is grateful to disability rights attorney Kathryn Carroll for her assistance in filing a public comment on the [CMS-9912-IFC] Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interim Final Rule: Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Excerpts are below and, to read the whole comment, go here. January 4, 2021 … Continue reading NDY Files Public Comment On Federal Healthcare Interim Final Rule In Response To COVID →

NDY Issues Statement Opposing the Proposed “Public Charge” Rule

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Not Dead Yet Opposes Proposed “Public Charge” Rule[1] Not Dead Yet joins a large number of other disability, immigrant and other civil rights organizations in strongly opposing the “Public Charge” rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The proposed rule discriminates against people with disabilities, people with health problems, the old, the young and lower … Continue reading NDY Issues Statement Opposing the Proposed “Public Charge” Rule →

A Bipartisan Op-Ed on the Harms and Threats to Disabled People in the Tax Bill

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The Organizers Forum of the National Disability Leadership Alliance just held an educational call about the harms and threats to people with disabilities (and seniors) in the tax bill. As usual, the NDLA website will carry a recording and transcript of the call as soon as possible. Shortly after the call, the U.S. House passed … Continue reading A Bipartisan Op-Ed on the Harms and Threats to Disabled People in the Tax Bill →

Disability Advocates Demand Seat At the HHS Table In Design of Value-Based Healthcare Payment Systems

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Last Thursday, Not Dead Yet was one of “over 70 individual patients and patient organizations” that joined the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), calling for recognition of us as stakeholders in the Better, Smarter, Healthier initiative and in the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network. … Continue reading Disability Advocates Demand Seat At the HHS Table In Design of Value-Based Healthcare Payment Systems →

Letter: Gutting Medicare Will Create Need For “Death Panels”

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It seems like only last week that I was writing that cuts to health care services that millions of Americans depend on would result in people with disabilities of all ages asking for help in killing themselves as they faced increased impoverishment accompanied with a withdrawal of supports that they rely on. Oh – it … Continue reading Letter: Gutting Medicare Will Create Need For “Death Panels” →