Issue Position: Supporting Our Senior Citizens and Making Healthcare More Affordable

Issue Position

Issue Position: Supporting Our Senior Citizens and Making Healthcare More Affordable

The energy, zeal and creativity driving our campaign began decades ago with the folks that conquered tyranny abroad and returned home to Long Island to create the modern suburbs, live the American dream and provide unlimited potential for their children. Our "Greatest Generation" now deserves the opportunity to retire at home on Long Island, after spending their entire lives raising their families here and building our local economy.

In addition to the measures I will take to improve our high cost of living, we must address the high cost of health care as well, an issue of utmost concern, especially to our Seniors. We must cut the fraud, waste and abuse in our nation's medicare and medicaid systems. Additionally, tort reform is vital to reduce malpractice insurance for doctors practicing on the east end of Long Island.

We need to also work on reducing the outlandish costs of prescription drugs. Our founding fathers guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Access to good health care is an important component to these inalienable rights.

My focus in addressing my commitment to prescription drug costs is three-fold:

* We need to give the Secretary of Health and Human Services the ability to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs;

* He/She should also have the ability to limit which drugs to approve for federally funded disbursement; and

* We should allow FDA-approved drugs from outside the country, in order to give everyone better access to the coverage that they deserve.

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