Democrats are steadfast advocates for America’s seniors, their peace of mind, and the issues they care about— including retirement security, the health of Medicare, and the high cost of prescription drugs. Democrats strongly support Social Security and Medicare and oppose efforts to privatize them. We’ve worked to ensure the strength and long-term solvency of those vital programs, so that they can support not just today’s seniors, but the generations to come. Democrats have worked to improve and modernize the Social Security program by investing in technology to enable the Social Security Administration to more efficiently process the increasing number of retirees and claims, and by improving the speed and quality of services for retirees.
Democrats also consistently fight to strengthen the Medicare program and help ensure that seniors can see their doctors. The newly enacted health insurance reform law extends the fiscal solvency of the Medicare program, while improving Medicare benefits, nursing home care, and chronic disease coverage, and reining in waste, fraud, and abuse. The new law also lowers prescription drug costs for seniors by sending a rebate to seniors in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug “donut hole,” offering discounts of up to 50 percent on prescriptions for those in the Part D coverage gap, and closing the coverage hole completely over the next several years.
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