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Secure Our Care
Secure Our Care aims to ensure access to quality medical care by identifying solutions to problems that threaten that care. Older Americans deserve better choices and more control over their healthcare so they can receive the care they need.
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Estimated national cost for cancer care by 2030.
Cancer diagnoses in the U.S. every year.
People get their healthcare from Medicare.
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Why Secure Our Care?
Medicare is a promise to our nation’s seniors. It should safeguard them from unnecessary hardship later in life, not create more uncertainty and concern about the availability of the best treatment options available.
Every day in the United States, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer and these patients will benefit by having more information on how aggressive their individual cancer is to guide more informed, better treatment plans. As part of 60 Plus’s commitment to advancing access to quality healthcare for senior citizens, we are fighting to ensure those on Medicare are free to choose the treatment that best suits their cancer and their individual choices.
What are others saying?
After PBMs, the new administration must look at MACs, who are threatening seniors’ access to critical cancer testing.
Editor-In-Chief at Forbes
Fixing the MAC system should be at the top of the list for a new administration that has focused on changing how Washington operates. President Bush said each generation has a duty to strengthen Medicare, which is now this generation’s turn.
17th Surgeon General of the United States
Every day, thousands of Americans are diagnosed with cancer, the majority of which are seniors. The decision to end Medicare coverage of cancer tests will prevent doctors from being able to intervene earlier and match their patients with the treatment plans they need. It is disappointing to see middlemen repeatedly interfere in our healthcare and limit access to the innovative testing we deserve.
President of 60 Plus
MACs have demonstrated their incredible sway over the process while threatening access to care, leaving vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries in the rear view.
Editor at RealClear Health
In the new year, new leadership at CMS should ensure the MACs don’t make another disastrous coverage decision at the expense of cancer patients. At the same time, Congress should take up Medicare reform and root out the middlemen who are standing in the way of critical cancer diagnostic testing for America’s senior citizens.
Editor at RealClear Health
Like PBMs, MACs are a symptom of consolidation in the healthcare industry.
Editor at RealClear Health
Despite Cures Act requirements to increase transparency in the LCD process, the general responsiveness of MACs to physician concerns has been suboptimal, and MACs have effectively omitted Contractor Advisory Committee (CAC) physician representatives from the LCD process. Further improvements are needed to restore opportunities for the physician community to meaningfully engage with the MACs to inform the development of local coverage policies.
Letter to Representatives DeGette and Upton
It’s time to reform the process for determining what Medicare covers…Ultimately, these decisions place people with disabilities and older Americans at risk.
Scott Whitaker, Jack Richmond, and Bruce Williams
STAT News Opinion
As far as taxpayers are concerned, a periodic, careful, and balanced cost-benefit analysis of all entities who have roles in Medicare administration is always a good idea.
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Secure Our Care is a project of 60 Plus, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that advocates for seniors and advances causes that matter most to seniors and their families. Founded in 1992, 60 Plus Association, the American Association of Senior Citizens is a 501c4 non-partisan, non-profit organization that advocates for seniors who believe in market-based solutions and are dedicated to protecting your right to freedom of speech and limited but effective government. We are committed to educating and advancing issues that matter most to seniors and their families such as protecting Social Security and Medicare, ensuring access to quality medical care, expanded educational options, lower taxes, retirement security, energy independence and permanently repealing the death tax.