Life in the two-year Medicare wait period
18/11/2008 ·
Alzheimer apostle Teresa Lambert aggregate her adventure about "life in the two-year delay period" for Medicare at a Capitol Hill account appointment Nov. 12 announcement the Coalition to End the Two-Year Delay for Medicare.
Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), who has authored House legislation catastrophe the two-year delay for Medicare, was aswell a featured apostle at the columnist conference.
The Alzheimer's Association and added than 65 added bloom advancement organizations accept abutting armament in a attack to appetite the next Congress to end the two-year delay for Medicare advantage faced by humans with disabilities beneath age 65.
The two-year delay affair decidedly impacts the younger-onset Alzheimer citizenry — individuals who are beneath age 65 who accept absent their jobs and their employer-based bloom allowance and who authorize for Medicare allowances beneath Social Security Disability Allowance (SSDI) but accept to delay 24 months afterwards the date their SSDI begins afore accepting Medicare bloom benefits.
Lambert is one of the about 500,000 humans beneath age 65 who accept Alzheimer's ache or a accompanying dementia. The 54-year-old Abilene, Texas, citizen is abominably no drifter to Alzheimer's; her father, Donald Smith, is active in the after stages, and the ache has already claimed the lives of her grandmother and great-grandmother.
Diagnosed endure year, Teresa is now active in the cat-and-mouse aeon with one year and one ages larboard afore her Medicare bloom advantage begins. An estimated 1.5 actor Americans with disabilities are bent up in this cat-and-mouse aeon for Medicare. About 39 percent of these individuals do not accept bloom allowance advantage for some point during the cat-and-mouse period, and 26 percent accept no bloom allowance during this absolute period.
Proud to be affiliated with the Alzheimer's Association's North Central Texas Chapter, Teresa aswell served as the honorary armchair of the North Central Texas Chapter's Memory Walk.
Ending the two-year delay for Medicare is an important aldermanic antecedence for the Alzheimer's Association, and we are committed to affective this legislation forward.
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