Senator Roger Wicker Praised for Leading Successful Effort to Derail $7.4 Million Medicare Cuts
Citing the substantial benefit in protecting the nation's critical frontline-caregiver infrastructure, the Coalition to Protect Senior Care (CPSC) today thanked Senator Roger Wicker for helping to lead a successful, bipartisan effort in Congress to stop the Bush Administration from moving forward with a new regulation that would have cut Medicare-funded nursing home care by $4 billion over the next five years, and $770 million for FY 2009. The Administration announced last week that the regulation would not go into effect, and the success of Sen. Wicker in helping to prevent the Medicare regulation from going into effect ensures Mississippi seniors will be protected from cuts of $7.4 million next year.
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