Values
- Burdensome federal regulations are making access to our domestic energy sources more difficult and expensive. Higher energy prices means higher prices on food, gas, medicines, and the cost of housing, which is placing financial hardships on America’s seniors.
- Social Security has proven to be a very successful program, keeping millions of Americans from suffering extreme poverty in their retirement.
- Cuts to Medicare that were included in ObamaCare, and the failure to enact long-term reform to Medicare’s physician payment system will be detrimental to seniors, as some doctors will find it too expensive to continue to provide care to Medicare patients.
- Believes community pharmacies are a critical service to the residents in their area. Community pharmacies are often the first source of information for patients as it relates to their prescription drugs, and they serve as advocates on behalf of patients in confronting the complex nature of the Medicare prescription drug plans and other insurance coverage.
- Believes that there are common-sense approaches to addressing Medicare’s long-term financing challenges. We can start with reforms that target waste and fraud in the system.
- Believes that with 10,000 Baby Boomers reaching retirement age every day, it is vital that we take action to improve and strengthen health care for current and future retirees.
Action
- Supports the Permanently Repeal the Estate Tax Act of 2011 (H.R. 143), which would permanently repeal the estate tax and ensure that individuals are not taxed on the increased value of an estate by retaining the stepped-up basis at death.
- Supports the Social Security Check Guarantee Act of 2011 (H.R. 2581), which would ensure that any reaching of the public debt limit will not prevent or limit the timely payment in full of Social Security benefits.
- Supports the Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011 (H.R. 1580), which would reverse a mandate of ObamaCare that eliminated the ability of Medicare Advantage recipients to change plans during the first three months of a calendar year.
- Supports the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011 (H.R.452), which would terminate the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) included as part of ObamaCare. The IPAB is a 15-member board of non-elected officials charged with recommending Medicare spending reductions. This would result in bureaucrats, not doctors, making health decisions for seniors.
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