Offer medical coverage to new senior immigrants

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Offer medical coverage to new senior immigrants

I am writing to bring to your notice a real problem which thousands of US citizens are currently facing. I trust that this problem is solvable by introduction of a Bill in the congress.

Problem:
No medical coverage including Medicare benefits are available to new senior immigrants for the first 5 years in the country.

Federal government promotes unification and offers expedited residency to the US citizen's parents. These parents who come into the country are happy to be united with their children, but are left without any medical insurance.

Details:
There is no viable private insurance option for new senior immigrants, and with Welfare Reform law of 1996, Medicaid is also not an option any more.

Many legal senior immigrants do not have any health insurance, putting proper medical care often out of reach. The petitioners believe that comprehensive reforms in Public health insurance are needed and request the Congress to offer solutions.

Solution:
One possible viable option is to allow Medicare coverage on actuarial premium. Please sponsor a bill in this regard to allow new senior immigrants to avail premium-based Medicare benefits.

We welcome other potential solutions including comprehensive reforms coming out of US congress as well.

For further reading on this topic:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seniorimmigrants/



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  • Vivek Kakkar
    • Zip Code
    • 27502
  • Nitin Agrawal
    • Zip Code
    • 27613
  • Naresh Giri
    • Comments
    • We need this for Senior Immigrant
    • Zip Code
    • 27519
  • Balbir Pal
    • Zip Code
    • 27519
  • Krishnan Thirukonda
    • Zip Code
    • 27560
  • vivek yadav
    • Zip Code
    • 27560
  • Krish Venkataraman
  • Venkat Krishnamurthy
  • Habigaile Cribe
  • Debojyoti Gogoi
    • Zip Code
    • 27519
  • Bindu
    • Zip Code
    • 27516
  • Sudhir Ramachandran
  • Ravi Shankar
    • Zip Code
    • 27519
  • Deepika Nath
  • Jogita Puranik
    • Comments
    • This is a critical need for senior immigrants. Without any medical coverage it is almost impossible to live in US & the Green card holds no value. This missing benefit is currently causing trauma to many old parents that are left behind in their country & cannot be united with their children who are US citizens. Also there is a loss of culture, heritage & values for grand children that bearly get to see their Grand parents as they get older & are not able to travel back & forth from their country of origin to US. Your help to provide a medical benefits solution for new senior immigrants will be of tremendous value to the new generation of US citizens. Thank you for taking time.
    • Zip Code
    • 27560
  • Amit Nanda
    • Zip Code
    • 27560
  • Eleakim Cribe
    • Comments
    • I believe that all persons that are give resident papers in the US should have medical coverage, as my father does not have medical coverage but is a US resident.
    • Zip Code
    • 33460
  • Kamlesh Shah
  • Vijay Raghavendran
    • Zip Code
    • 27513
  • sarvesh khatri
  • Vijay Bollapragada
    • Zip Code
    • 27519
  • Sakthi Saravanan
  • Sanjay Shah
  • Vivek Vaidya
    • Zip Code
    • 27513
  • Manan Shah
    • Comments
    • Thank You.
    • Zip Code
    • 21117
  • Srinivas Cham
    • Zip Code
    • 27519
  • Sanjay Shah
    • Comments
    • В
    • Zip Code
    • 30005
  • Rakesh Patel
  • GUHAN RAMAN
    • Zip Code
    • 95054
  • SHARANYA SUBRAMANIAN
    • Zip Code
    • 95054
  • Amit Sinha
    • Zip Code
    • 95054
  • Madhu Rao
    • Comments
    • I totally support this petition.
    • Zip Code
    • 78717
  • SUMIT NAIKSATAM
    • Zip Code
    • 94086
  • Maneesh Saxena
    • Comments
    • This issue is coming to a head now and needs to be addressed, senior immigrants should have the same benefits are senior US citizens
    • Zip Code
    • 94087
  • Purusharth Mahay
    • Comments
    • We should go for it
    • Zip Code
    • 95132
  • Vimaladevi Rajakanthan
  • FNU Isu
    • Zip Code
    • 92614
  • Raj Natarajan
  • Animesh Gupta
  • Shikha
    • Zip Code
    • 95014
  • Sweta Teriar
    • Zip Code
    • 95070
  • Kartik Subramanian
  • Mampatta Vinodkumar
  • Fnu Nikkhil
    • Zip Code
    • 94086
  • Sunil Patil
    • Zip Code
    • 94536
  • Muthukumar Mudaliar
    • Comments
    • Without health coverage, these senior immigrants are unable to address their health issues and allow themselves to deterioriate their persona health.
    • Zip Code
    • 95130
  • Amol Tipnis
  • Srinivas
  • Perumal Venkatesh
  • Samiran Basak
    • Zip Code
    • 94404