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Cuts will only make a hard job infinitely harder by limiting resources and expanding the health burden caregivers bear in their work.

that providers receive for treating Medicare patients. In fact, this has already occurred and some doctors argue that decreasing their payments from the federal health insurance program will mean fewer of them will agree to take on new Medicare patients because they just can’tthatbe provided by a doctor.

Protecting these benefits is why Reps. Terri Sewell and Vern Buchanan introduced H.R. 8581, the bipartisan Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2022. We urge our lawmakers to bring this bill to a vote immediately and pass this bill to protect critical Medicare services that low-income older adults rely on. Doing so would better millions of lives and save the economy trillions of dollars.

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