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For the twenty-ninth time, the members of United Senior Action gathered for the organization’s annual convention. The convention is integral for the organization as it is the time members identify and vote on issues important to the membership.
Annual USA State Convention Success!
Click HERE for a photo gallery of the November 2, 2007 pre-Convention Alice Hedt reception.
Click HERE for photo gallery of November 3, 2007 USA Annual Convention.
At the April Getting to the issues meeting in Indianapolis, Duane Ettiene, CEO and President of CICOA In Home Solutions, helped USA launch it's new campaign to fully fund the Older Americans Act (OAA) by increasing its funding by 10% in 2008. As Duane Etienne said, "the need is great, and this modest funding increase can accomplish a great deal."
Members of United Senior Action have advanced their campaign to change how Medicare Part D works by focusing on congressional candidates. The Fix Medicare Part D Campaign is being organized in Indiana by United Senior Action of Indiana and the Indiana Alliance for Retired Americans (Alliance)...
This spring, Steve Smith, director of the Indiana Division on Aging, announced he was negotiating with nursing facilities and accepting pledges from nursing homes willing to decertify Medicaid nursing home beds. In return, he stated, the Division was agreeing to pay facilities to close the beds if the beds were currently occupied.
On the afternoon of June 30th, area agencies on aging around the state received from the State the new service rates for that would take effect July 1st, just a few hours later. Significant changes in the rates for home care services were made...
-April 28, 2006
In the wake of a new national report highlighting tragic cases of abuse and neglect in long term care facilities, United Senior Action of Indiana (USA) - a statewide senior advocacy organization - says that far too many Hoosier nursing home residents are victims of the same shameful care and treatment chronicled in the publication...
Over the next few years, the patents on $100 billion worth of brand-name prescription drugs are set to expire. This unprecedented wave of patent expiration could mean an explosion in the availability of cheaper generic drugs for consumers across the country. That is, unless the drug industry continues to invent new ways to delay bringing these drugs to market...
Two new reports highlight what senior organizations throughout the country
have been saying about the so-called Medicare prescription drug benefit: It is a disaster!
Adding to the list of “what is going on?” is the new voter identification law. Under the new law,
a voter will be required to show a valid picture identification issued by either Indiana or the
federal government at the polls before they will be allowed to cast their ballot. If they don’t
have such a piece of identification, they can cast a provisional ballot after signing an affidavit.
United Senior Action has joined forces with Citizens Action Coalition in the Citizens Gas rate
increase process.
Earlier this year, Citizens Gas announced plans to seek approval of an increase in rates from the
Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. In order for consumers in Indianapolis to have a voice,
Citizens Action Coalition secured the legal counsel of Jerry Polk and asked United Senior
Action to join the effort.
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