Labor & Employment Law

Got Health Care Reform and Medicare Questions? Ask President Obama!

By Mike Hall

Are you a Medicare recipient with questions about the new health care reform law, or do you know someone who is? Tomorrow, you’ll have a chance to get those questions answered by President Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.

They are hosting an hour-long, live tele-town hall meeting Tuesday, starting at 11:15 a.m. EDT. Health care advocates and senior activists will discuss the key provisions and expanded benefits that the new health care law provides for Medicare participants. The meeting will focus on the $250 “donut hole” rebate checks that will soon be in the mail and the efforts to combat some of the commercial scams and schemes aimed at seniors.

President Obama will take questions from the audience and from callers. Here’s the toll-free number you can use to ask your question: at 1-800-837-1935, Code 80272058. The meeting also will be broadcast on C-SPAN and will be webcast live at www.HealthReform.gov.

Click here for a look at some of the new benefits for Medicare recipients and here to download a brochure about the new health care law and Medicare.

The Alliance for Retired Americans will hold watch parties in several cities.

Contact the Alliance for Retired Americans if you live in one of the following communities?Dubuque, Des Moines and Waterloo, Iowa; Suitland and White Plains, Md.; St. Louis, Mo.; Nashua and Manchester, N.H.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Raleigh, N.C.; Ashtabula, Ohio; Philadelphia, Pa.; and Columbia, S.C. Contact the Alliance at: ARAORGANIZING@RetiredAmericans.org.

Don’t forget, the Medicare tele-town hall meeting kicks off tomorrow at 11:15 a.m. EDT.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).