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Officials from the AARP provided an overview of the group’s legislative agenda for 2006. They said Congress should revise the 2003 Medicare law to allow the Department of Health and Human Se…

At the opening plenary session of the 2004 National Governors' Association Winter Meeting, NGA Chairman Governor Kempthorne released the first report from his “A Lifetime of Health and Digni…

Mr. Novelli spoke about retirement issues, proposals to partially privatize Social Security, and the future of the system.

CEO Bill Novelli talked about the AARP’s role in crafting the Medicare prescription drug plan signed into law last month by President George W. Bush, and answered some of the criticisms of t…

Mr. Novelli talked about Medicare legislation, focusing on the proposed addition of prescription drug benefits to Medicare. He said that the current bills made many improvements, but had sev…

Mr. Novelli spoke about the growing numbers of older Americans and the potential impact of coming demographic changes. Among the topics he addressed were health care, workforce and retiremen…

Witnesses testified about proposals to provide prescription medication programs through Medicare. Among the issues they addressed were the costs of medicine and funding Medicare.