CBO: CHAMP Act Slashes Seniors' Nursing Home Care 2.7 Billion Dollars Over Five Years, USA

Despite the effort by the House Ways and Means Committee to spin the hastily-crafted Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007 (CHAMP Act) as beneficial to "America's Greatest Generation," new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data, in fact, has determined that the nation's oldest, highest acuity nursing home residents will suffer Medicare Part A budget cuts of $2.7 billion over five years, prompting the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to question why this highly vulnerable population has been singled out for the highest level of cuts.

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