Love your grandparents, protect their benefits

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Saturday September 10, 2011 · 8:39 AM PDT

2011/09/10 · 08:39

National Grandparents Day is this weekend. This year, the country can recognize America’s senior generation by helping to protect earned retirement health care.

Last year, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was signed into law, the government left out protections for America’s retirees and the health-care benefits they had earned.

Retirees like me traded decades of loyal service to our former employers for lower pay and less vacation time in exchange for guaranteed health-care benefits in retirement. These benefits were paid for over a lifetime of employment.

Congress must protect these benefits by passing the Earned Retiree Healthcare Benefits Protection Act of 2011 (H.R.1322) into law, and prevent our former employers from cutting the earned benefits for 14.3 million retired Americans like me.

The fight for this legislation on Capitol Hill is led by ProtectSeniors.Org. I urge fellow retirees and their families to take action, call their Congress member and get involved.
Do not sit on the sidelines, or we all lose out.

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