Over 120 Patient Advocacy Groups Support Legislation To Eliminate Two-Year Medicare Waiting Period

The Coalition to End the Two-Year Wait for Medicare, over 120 organizations who work to ensure access to health care for people with disabilities, enthusiastically supports the introduction of Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2009, S.700 and H.R.1708, which would eliminate the unjustifiable two-year delay in coverage for people with severe disabilities who are waiting to become eligible for Medicare coverage.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on March 31st, 2009