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<p>As VA expands its home and community-based services for aging veterans and those living with disabilities, it is important to ensure that these services meet the needs of veterans and caregivers and are available to all veterans who would benefit.</p>

Forkel: Declining profit margins, inflation and growing number of Medicare beneficiaries will require Altru to stay "proactive."

The 5.1 percent reduction in Medicare payments scheduled to begin in January 2007 could lead many physicians to stop accepting new Medicare patients, to defer investments in new equipment and technol­ogy, or both. These problems are merely symptoms of a deeper pathology within Medicare and highlight the need for Congress to adopt comprehensive Medicare reform. Without congressional action to reform this profoundly flawed system, America's seniors could face a decline in access to high-quality health care.

The Community Living Assistance Services and Support (CLASS) program is an actuarially unsound and fiscally irresponsible misadventure by Congress. Congress should never have enacted this new government-run long-term care insurance program. It places CLASS participants at risk of benefit cuts and American taxpayers at great risk of being forced to bail out this poorly designed program. Congress should promptly repeal the CLASS program and then make a serious effort to address the problem of financing the long-term care of the nation’s population in the context of an overall reform of federal...