Issue Position: Increasing Access to Quality Health Care

Issue Position

Traveling to all 18 counties helping people with their problems has taught Shelley that there is no higher priority than making health care more affordable for every single West Virginian. That is why she co-authored the Medicare Prescription Drug plan that has resulted in an overwhelming majority of seniors in West Virginia obtaining prescription drug coverage. She also voted to increase coverage for children by voting for the S-CHIP program. This act expanded coverage for children and prevented cuts in the physician reimbursement under Medicare for seniors. As Chair of the Long-Term Care Congressional Caucus, Shelley joined a group of bi-partisan legislators in opposing the Bush Administration's proposed $770 million cut in skilled nursing home care under Medicare.

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