Letter: Proposed cuts jeopardize health care for seniors
Our community's seniors rely on Medicare to pay for their health care services, but newly finalized cuts are threatening to jeopardize their access to care.
On January 1, a severe, 4.5% Medicare cut to physical and occupational therapy services will go into effect. This drastic measure will undoubtedly threaten our local physical therapy centers' ability to stay open, making it more difficult for seniors to access the safe, effective, and vital therapy services they need to recover from injury, manage pain, and prevent costly falls.
I hope our lawmakers will support the Supporting Medicare Providers Act (H.R. 8800) to stop these Medicare cuts before it is too late.
Matt Wlodarski
Wheaton
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