Long Term Care Campaign: Voters Get Easy Access to Candidates' Web Sites to Push Long Term Care
Contact: Jon Dauphine (Washington, D.C.), 202-434-3716,
or John McCalley (Iowa), 515-282-0001, ext. 6
WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Long Term Care Campaign, a coalition of leading consumer groups that advocates for a solution to the nation's long term care crisis, has created a quick and easy way for Americans to contact the would-be presidential candidates. Concerned citizens can now go to the "Contact the Candidates!" section of the Campaign's Web site (www.ltccampaign.org) to find hot-links to all of the would-be candidates' campaign Web sites. Most of these sites ask Americans to offer comments or ask questions, so net surfers can easily share their concerns about long term care and ask the candidate for information on his or her plan to address the problem.
In addition to hot-links to all of the campaign Web sites, www.ltccampaign.org also offers advocates' tips on different ways to contact the presidential hopefuls; a sample letter on long term care that can be customized; and contact information for each candidate's campaign headquarters, along with information on their Iowa and New Hampshire offices.
"We are encouraging caregivers and families who have had experience with long term care to share their personal stories with those seeking to be president -- and then to ask what each would-be candidate plans to do to address the growing long term care crisis," explains Jon Dauphine, the Long Term Care Campaign's executive director.
"One of the great hallmarks of the early primary season is the opportunity for voters to meet candidates in the more intimate, 'retail' settings of Iowa and New Hampshire so that they can listen first-hand to concerns and suggestions," notes Dauphine. "We are making sure that all of our advocates in Iowa and New Hampshire also receive special flyers on how to contact local campaign offices in their states."
"Long term care is extremely expensive, but almost no one has coverage for it," says Dauphine. "Medicare, Medigap and private health insurance generally don't pay. So people have to spend almost everything they have before they can receive assistance with the bills through Medicaid, a federal-state poverty program. We believe there has to be a better way."
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The Long Term Care Campaign is a coalition of 147 different aging, disability, religious, consumer and other groups with combined memberships of more than 60 million Americans. Nonprofit and nonpartisan, the campaign works to educate Americans about long term care, and to push for positive solutions.
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