Seniors

Working to honor the promises made to Ohio’s senior citizens.

Ohio would not be the great state it is today without the hard work, the sweat, and the sacrifice of our 1.6 million seniors.  I believe we owe it to our senior citizens, the parents who raised us, the men and women who built our state and our country, to ensure they are taken care of in their retirement years.

• In the Senate, Lee will work to strengthen, preserve and protect Social Security for current and future generations as part of the basic guarantee between government and its citizens and will oppose efforts to privatize social security.
• Seniors deserve affordable access to the medications their doctors prescribe. This is why Lee supports the repeal of the law preventing Medicare from negotiating lower prescription drug prices on behalf of seniors. Lee also supports the reimportation of safe, FDA-approved medications from Canada, which could save consumers $50 billion over 10 years.
• Vulnerable seniors can be victimized, physically and financially, even by the people who are supposed to be caring for them. Lee worked to protect seniors from fraud and victimization as Ohio’s Attorney General, and he’ll continue that fight in the Senate.
• As a State Senator in 1986, Lee authored and passed Ohio’s Hospice Licensure Law to protect the rights of Ohioans in hospice care.