Help us Eliminate the Twenty-Four Month Medicare Waiting Period
October 13th, 2005 by RespiteMatch.comMany people know that Medicare serves both older adults and people with disabilities. Few are aware that, for Medicare coverage to begin, Americans with disabilities must wait 24 months from their first Social Security disability income payment, which is five months after Social Security deems them disabled.
Medicare provides an invaluable safety net for Americans with disabilities, providing good, affordable health coverage when the private insurance market turns its back. Let us work together to make this health coverage available as soon as people need it, rather than 24 months later. Let us eliminate the 24-month Medicare waiting period.
The Medicare Rights Center is committed to eliminating the Medicare coverage waiting period and we have recently embarked on a national media project to do so. Our goal is to focus attention on the personal experiences of people who:
are currently in the 24-month Medicare waiting period, or
finally got Medicare coverage after having gone through the two-year wait.
These individuals would have to be comfortable talking to the press about their health care experiences during the Medicare waiting period.
If you know of individuals with a compelling story who are willing to participate in this project, please let us know.
Michael De Dora, Jr.
Communications Assistant
1.800.333.4114 ext. 33
www.medicarerights.org
