Eliminate the Two-Year Waiting Period for Disability Medicare Benefits

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It’s time to end the 24-month waiting period – a devastating delay in Medicare benefits – for people with disabilities. And ACA is ready to join the fight.

The Amputee Coalition of America (ACA), the nation’s leading advocacy organization working on behalf of people with limb loss, is joining forces with more than 65 health advocacy organizations calling for elimination of the 24-month waiting period for Medicare benefits for people under 65 with disabilities, according to its Nov. 12, 2008 release.

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“We are joining the Coalition to End the Two-Year Wait for Medicare to help give voice to people with disabilities and their families who struggle to pay medical bills and keep their households above water while waiting two years for their Medicare coverage to begin as required by law,” said Kendra Calhoun, President and CEO of the Amputee Coalition of America.

“By banding together, we make our voices louder and impossible to ignore. This senseless delay in Medicare health coverage for the most vulnerable among us must end,” added Robert M. Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center.