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Find press releases, press kits, video of press events here as well as recent articles, blogs or news items about NSCLC. For journalists who wish to speak with an NSCLC expert, please call NSCLC Communications Director Scott L. Parkin at (202) 683-1996.
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News Release: NSCLC Signs "Whole Constitutional Pledge"
(2011/09/14)
The National Senior Citizens Law Center is a signatory to the "Whole Constitution Pledge" and has joined Constitutional Progressives, a new coalition of progressive leaders, scholars, and organizations formed to reclaim the Constitution.
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Aging Today: Medicaid Block Grants Would Shred Safety Net for Low Income Older Adults
(2011/08/03)
July/August 2011 by Paul Nathanson
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News Release: Consumer Protection for Dual Eligibles Means Putting the Person First
(2011/07/15)
At a forum this week at the Kaiser Family Foundation, several speakers agreed that efforts underway to better integrate Medicare and Medicaid benefits bring great promise but also great risk for the nine million low-income people who rely on both programs to meet their health and long term care needs.
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- Consumer Protection for Dual Eligibles Important in New Integrated Care Models (2011/07/13) According to a new issue brief from the National Senior Citizens Law Center entitled Ensuring Consumer Protection for Dual Eligibles in Integrated Models, it is essential to have consumer protections in place before new models are implemented.
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White House and Congress Must Reject Cuts to Social Security
(2011/07/07)
In a press release, NSCLC says that a change from the measure of inflation to something called the Chained CPI would have its greatest impact on those least able to afford it.
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- ACS Blog: Potent Support for the Affordable Care Act Mandate From an Improbable Source (2011/06/30) In a blog about the 6th District Court of Appeals decision on the health reform law, NSCLC's Simon Lazarus writes: "...what Judge Sutton thinks about the constitutionality of the mandate actually matters a lot to the future debate over the mandate."
- The Hill --Court Rules Healthcare Reform Law is Constitutional, Upholds Mandate (2011/06/30) NSCLC's Simon Lazarus is quoted in the blog: "It really is an opinion that says, 'If you are a thoughtful conservative... this is how I think you have to come out."
- National Law Journal -- Circuit Upholds Health Care Reform Law (2011/06/29) In an article on the appeals court ruling, Simon Lazarus is quoted, "His opinion [Judge Jeffrey Sutton]will be important not just because he will be viewed by conservative members of the Supreme Court as an ideological comrade in arms, but [because he will be viewed] by Chief Justice [John] Roberts as an intellectual peer. He raises every kind of objection made to the act in a thoughtful and sympathetic way and then proceeds to knock them down."
- Senior Housing News - AARP Ready to Play (2011/06/21) In a reaction to AARP's statements about its willingness to negotiate on raising the retirement age, organizations like the National Senior Citizens Law Center said such a move would be a serious mistake.
- Washinton Post (2011/06/21) In a farewell column, Pearlstein writes about the individual mandate that exists in both the health reform law and Ryancare. "I'm not the first person to notice the hypocrisy. (NSCLC's) Simon Lazarus noted it for Slate, Greg Mankiw did in the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page has been all over it, as has my colleague Ezra Klein."
