Our New Year’s Resolution: Protect America’s Seniors

With a new year comes a new opportunity to improve the integrity, quality, and efficiency of home health for our nation’s seniors. As Congress returns to work, we urge our nation’s lawmakers to continue protecting patients through support of the Securing Access Via Excellence (SAVE) Medicare Home Health Act.

Introduced last year (as H.R. 5110), the SAVE Medicare Home Health Act would repeal devastating cuts to the Medicare home health benefit implemented through the Affordable Care Act. If enacted, the bill would enable millions of seniors to remain in their homes, receiving highly effective care in a patient’s preferred setting.

Last legislative session, 40 sponsors and cosponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives supported this vital legislation to the continued delivery of quality home healthcare. We at the Partnership would like to personally thank each Member for standing up for some of America’s most vulnerable patients.

However, there is much more to be done. The SAVE Medicare Home Health Act must be re-introduced for consideration by the 114th Congress. Fortunately, the health and well being of our seniors is truly a cause we can all support.

Therefore, our New Year’s resolution is simple: protect patients and combat harmful cuts to home health. We hope our lawmakers will help us to make this possible!