Seniors have unique needs and challenges. We must provide them with adequate health care, financial, and community resources that allow them to live with dignity and respect.
- Reduce Health Care Costs for Medicare Recipients
- Further price controls and caps must be added to minimize financial burden for beneficiaries.
- Further price controls and caps must be added to minimize financial burden for beneficiaries.
- Strengthen & Protect Social Security
- If Congress doesn’t act, then by 2033 Social Security will be unable to pay out full benefits to beneficiaries. Seniors worked and contributed to Social Security for years and it’s critical we keep that promise. We must raise the social security tax cap to ensure that billionaires like Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos pay a fair amount into the program while fending off Republican efforts to cut benefits, privatize benefits, and raise the age to qualify for Social Security.
- If Congress doesn’t act, then by 2033 Social Security will be unable to pay out full benefits to beneficiaries. Seniors worked and contributed to Social Security for years and it’s critical we keep that promise. We must raise the social security tax cap to ensure that billionaires like Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos pay a fair amount into the program while fending off Republican efforts to cut benefits, privatize benefits, and raise the age to qualify for Social Security.
- Improve Traditional Medicare
- Traditional Medicare still doesn’t provide auditory, vision, dental coverage, or long-term services and supports (LTSS) for beneficiaries. If we want healthy, thriving seniors we must finally provide these services.
- Traditional Medicare still doesn’t provide auditory, vision, dental coverage, or long-term services and supports (LTSS) for beneficiaries. If we want healthy, thriving seniors we must finally provide these services.
- Keep Seniors in their Homes & Communities
- We must invest in home- and community-based care, ensuring seniors can remain in their neighborhoods. It is critical that Medicaid cover these services to give seniors an option outside of residential, institutional facilities.
- We must invest in home- and community-based care, ensuring seniors can remain in their neighborhoods. It is critical that Medicaid cover these services to give seniors an option outside of residential, institutional facilities.
- Reverse Medicaid & SNAP Cuts
- The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans gut our social safety net which so many seniors rely on. These essential programs allow seniors in NY-12 and nationwide to thrive and they must be protected.
- The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans gut our social safety net which so many seniors rely on. These essential programs allow seniors in NY-12 and nationwide to thrive and they must be protected.
- Safeguard Mail-in Voting
- The Trump Administration is trying to force their SAVE America Act through Congress calling it a ‘voter ID bill’ but it is anything but. If passed, the SAVE Act would virtually eliminate the ability to vote by mail, jeopardizing seniors who rely on this method to make their voices heard.
