Committee on Ways and MeansFeb 7 2011RE: Hearing on Improving Efforts to Help Unemployed Americans Find JobsMy husband has been unemployed for exactly two years now after working for the same company for almost thirty years.  Since being laid off, he has ...

The Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. is a national, non-profit organization that works on behalf of older people and people with disabilities to ensure fair access to affordable and comprehensive health care.  We submit this statement for the record of the Hearing on the Health Care Law’s Impact on the Medicare Program and its Beneficiaries, held before the House Ways & Means ...

 Lori Parker Dear Committee Members:I was laid off in January 2009 from my position at a non-profit that provided support services to adults with intellectual disabilities.  After the financial crash, the social services job market evaporated because of severe budget cuts in state ...

The Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) is the professional trade association that represents the interests of over 600 medical-surgical products distributor companies operating throughout the United States.  Our members deliver life-saving healthcare products to more than 220,000 points of care including over 195,000 physician offices, 5,700 hospitals and 16,000 nursing ...

MARTIN G. THOMASACTIVE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN 99ER'S UNION02 / 10 / 2011My dilemma in this unemployment search is never ending it seems. Hundereds of applications, 3 ...

LeadingAge commends the Ways and Means Committee for holding this hearing on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on seniors. We believe the new law has had a number of positive and significant effects on the delivery of health care and long-term services and supports to seniors, and we continue to support its implementation.LeadingAge is an association of 5,500 ...

February 9, 2011To:  House Ways and Means Committee, Sub-Committe on Human ResourcesI am writing to urge you to take quick and immediate action on behalf of the Unemployed in America, especially the large number (which is growing larger with each new day) of long-termed unemployed who have already exhausted all available unemployment ...

The Medicare Rights Center is a national, independent nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through individual counseling and advocacy, educational programs and public policy initiatives. We provide services through six different hotlines to individuals, caregivers and professionals who ...

From: Rochelle SevierTitle of Hearing: Improving Efforts to Help Unemployed Americans Find Jobs  Dear Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY),Thank you for conducting the Hearing for Improving Efforts to Help Unemployed Americans Find Jobs.I was laid off in October 2008 and ...

The National Partnership for Women & Families submits this written statement on the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on older women.  The National Partnership is a non-profit, non-partisan consumer organization with 40 years of experience working to make life better for women and families by promoting access to quality health care, fairness in the workplace, and policies that ...