FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Contact: Linda Benesch, lbenesc
Kamala Harris’s Home Care Plan is Life-Changing for Seniors and People With Disabilities
(Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works:
“Today, Kamala Harris announced her plan to expand Medicare to cover long-term care at home. This would be life-changing for seniors, people with disabilities, and those who love them.
This plan is paid for by expanding Medicare’s power to negotiate lower drug prices so that Big Pharma stops ripping us off. Seniors get lower drug prices and a new home health benefit.
Currently, seniors and people with disabilities who need care that family can’t provide are too often warehoused in dehumanizing nursing homes. Often, these nursing homes are owned by private equity corporations who are exploiting patients for profit. Under the Harris plan, seniors and disabled people would have the freedom to stay in their own homes.
This is a universal benefit, in the grand tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Frances Perkins. Everyone on Medicare would qualify.
This is a win for everyone in America — except the billionaires.”
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