Above all, he aims at the core of the problem, the ever-rising cost of health care for the elderly.
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Even as home health care for the elderly became professionalized, those women continued to be categorized as companions, not eligible for minimum wage or overtime.
When America created Social Security (pensions) in 1935 and Medicare (health care for the elderly) in 1965, these big measures enjoyed at least some bipartisan support.
Two of America's costliest entitlement programmes, Medicare (health care for the elderly) and Social Security (pensions), will go bust within a generation if they are not reformed.
Entitlements, in particular Social Security (pensions) and Medicare and Medicaid (health care for the elderly and the poor), represent the bulk of spending and even more of spending growth.
First the Democrats would have to put entitlements, the legally mandated programmes of Social Security (pensions), Medicare (health care for the elderly) and Medicaid (health care for the poor), on the table.
America urgently needs a medium-term plan that both raises revenues by reforming taxes and arrests the long-run growth of spending on entitlements such as pensions and health care for the elderly (Medicare).
Mr Romney and his running-mate, Paul Ryan, have indicated that they would not change Social Security or Medicare (pensions and health care for the elderly) for the currently, or soon to be, retired.
Getting both parties to share the pain is also the only realistic way to tackle tough long-term problems, like the looming bankruptcy of Social Security (public pensions) and Medicare (public health care for the elderly).
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Deficit hawks fret that the government's three main entitlement programmes Social Security (pensions), Medicare (health care for the elderly) and Medicaid (health care for the poor and residential care for old people who cannot afford it) will eventually bankrupt America.
The fees that Washington's Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees Medicare, has decreed providers may charge for many medical treatments are unrealistically low, thus guaranteeing that the quality of health care for the elderly will suffer in the years to come.
The most daring strategy would be for Mr Bush to lay out an ambitious policy for the second term centred on a fundamental reform of America's entitlement programmes (principally Social Security and Medicare, the federally funded systems that provide, respectively, pensions and health care for the elderly) or basic changes to the tax system.
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Yokich said Gore was on the UAW's side on the economy, workers' rights, education, the Social Security retirement program and Medicare health care program for the elderly, the environment, and other issues of concern to working families.
It too peddles a populist message about better health care and welfare for the elderly.
In theory, he and Congress could couple a bigger stimulus with more ambitious deficit-reduction by reforming entitlements (such as health care and pensions for the elderly) and taxes.
Sure it can, but not without raising taxes or fundamentally changing the way it provides health and long-term care for the elderly.
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The shadow health secretary also called for the NHS and local authorities to work closer together to improve care for the elderly and for "full integration" of health and social care services to be actively considered.
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Residential care homes exist for people with learning disabilities and people who have mental health problems in addition to those that care for the elderly.
For this week the trustees who oversee Medicare, the government's health-care programme for over 40m elderly and disabled Americans, said the programme will be bankrupt by 2019, seven years sooner than previously thought.
The group has installed water filtration systems, built ramps for the disabled, improved care for the elderly and raised awareness about local health issues.
And he was an early critic of the Clintons' abortive 1993 effort to reform health care, arguing that with five out of six Americans covered by health insurance, and with free or subsidised care provided for the poor and elderly, the true crisis was not in the health system but the welfare system.
The report stresses the importance of adopting policies that provide income security, access to quality health care, and a supporting legal environment for the elderly.
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In the Senate early in the morning, late at night, Ted Kennedy fought and cut deals for minimum wage increases, health care, education, immigration reform, and help for the poor, the elderly and the sick.
For example, Medicare, the federal health-insurance scheme for the elderly, makes no allowance for palliative care, which eases suffering rather than attempting to cure the sufferer.
If we had an open market for health care, the solution would not be to cut back on expensive injections to help ease pain for elderly people.
This is the bill to sort out the system for care for elderly and disabled people - under the chairmanship of the Lib Dem former health minister, Paul Burstow.
ACOs last year began providing medical care services to seniors through contracts with the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly.
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Health Minister Michael McGimpsey was asked about the provision of residential and domiciliary care for the elderly.
Growth of our major health care programs, Medicare and Medicaid, will be slowed, but protections for the elderly and needy will be preserved.
The budget battle may launch the first of many battles the new president may face with Democrats over far-ranging issues, including education and health care to Social Security and Medicare, the nation's health plan for America's elderly.
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