NSCLC has preserved health care and won hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits and services for millions of elderly and disabled people. 

• NSCLC played a key role in the creation of the Nursing Home Reform Act, which protects nursing home residents from abuse and neglect.
• NSCLC streamlined government procedures for Medicaid coverage so that newly disabled people could enroll more quickly.
• NSCLC won the first successful class-action lawsuit against a federal agency for age discrimination.  The US Agency for International Development sought to reduce its payroll by selectively laying off its most senior staff.
• NSCLC won reinstatement of benefits for more than 3,300 nursing home residents in Kentucky.
• NSCLC stopped the state of Mississippi from jumping the gun and cutting off Medicaid prescription drug benefits to more than 50,000 elderly and disabled people before Medicare Part D coverage began.
• NSCLC helped to stop the closing of a nationally renowned rehabilitation hospital in California.
• NSCLC helped to overturn a policy in San Francisco that, in effect, sent all people needing long-term skilled nursing care to a single large facility rather than offer community-based care for those who could still manage somewhat on their own.