Primaris Press Release
| For immediate release: Aug. 14, 2007 |
Contact: Matt Heger Primaris Communications Department (800) 735-6776, Ext. 136 |
MP3 Audio Own Your Future - Carol Beahan, Director of CLAIM, explains why the Own Your Future campaign matters. Photos
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt announces the Own Your Future effort at the Primaris building in Columbia, Mo., on Aug. 14, 2007.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and Doug Ommen, director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration, answer questions about the Own Your Future campaign at the Primaris building in Columbia, Mo., on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. Photo credit: Amanda Stogsdill Primaris Press Room photos are pubic domain. |
Plan today for tomorrow’s care
CLAIM supports Governor’s Own Your Future town hall meetings
CLAIM, Missouri’s free Medicare assistance program, encourages Missourians to participate in the Own Your Future town hall meetings supported by Gov. Matt Blunt and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Own Your Future is a campaign to promote long-term care planning. In addition to making available a free planning kit from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Missouri will host town hall meetings across the state that feature a panel of experts on legal, financial, insurance and long-term care options.
“In preparing for this campaign, I realized that I had not prepared for my future as well as I should have,” said Carol Beahan, CLAIM director.
“It is important to determine where you have some loose ends. Is it your financial needs? Is it your insurance needs? Or is it the legal issues; who would help take care of you when you are older? Who do you want to pay your bills when you are older? So how do you make those decisions and what questions do you need to ask? That’s what these town hall meetings will do,” Beahan said.
Columbia is hosting the first town hall meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 15, at Primaris, 200 N. Keene St.
Exhibits open at 4:30 p.m. Panel discussion begins at 6 p.m.
For more information, visit www.ownyourfuture.mo.gov. The Own Your Future guidebook can be ordered at that Web site or by calling 1-866-752-6582.
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MO-07-33-CLAIM August 2007
This material has been created or produced by CLAIM with financial assistance, in whole or part, through a grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Federal Medicare agency. Funding is administered through the Missouri Department of Insurance Financial Institutions and Professional Registration and service is provided by Primaris.