The American dream doesn’t end with a successful career. It continues throughout our senior years. After a lifetime of hard work, seniors are ready to enjoy a relatively stress free retirement. 

And that means having the medical coverage promised by our government. Throughout our working years, we paid into Medicare so it would be there to provide for our medical needs. Now, my opponent Tom McClintock wants to break that promise.

Twice he’s voted to replace Medicare with vouchers. He wants to limit government and have you to get your own private health insurance. Have you ever tried to get private health insurance when you’re 65 years old?  I can tell you it’s nearly impossible to get an ordinary plan, because I don’t know anyone that’s 65 years old who doesn’t have some pre-existing condition.  The plans you can get are prohibitively extremely complicated and expensive. The vouchers will never be enough to pay the coverage that seniors have now. The fact is McClintock knows that most seniors will not be able to afford private health insurance. But, to him, it just doesn’t matter. He’ll give you a voucher, and the rest is up to you to figure out.

As your Congressman, I’ll make sure our government keeps its promises. We were promised medical care, not a voucher. I am not willing to let the government break this promise and abandon our seniors when they are counting on this program to be there. 

We can maintain Medicare and strengthen it by eliminating provider fraud, decreasing frivolous law suits, and paying providers more for positive outcomes rather than for unnecessary procedures. These are the actions that I will vote for, because they will ensure America keeps our promise never to abandon our seniors.

If you elect me as your next Congressman, I will be there for you.