Steve Lynch on Social Security

Democratic Representative (MA-9)

Fight against privatizing Social Security

Lynch will fight President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security. He would allow people to voluntarily set up a insurance program with their employers that will allow their parents and grandparents to buy prescription drugs. He will fight to extend health insurance coverage so that no one is denied access to the best medical resources just because they cannot afford them. He will support greater health insurance portability so that workers don’t lose their medical coverage when they change jobs. Source: Candidate Website Sep 8, 2001

Deny no one access to insurance and best medical resources

On Beacon Hill

He supported expanding insurance coverage to cover mental illness and the equipment and supplies to treat diabetes. He fought to increase funding for breast and prostate cancer research. He stood for greater investment in the community health centers.

On Capitol Hill

He will propose a bill that will allow people to voluntarily set up a insurance program with their employers that will allow their parents and grandparents to buy prescription drugs. He will fight to extend health insurance coverage so that no one is denied access to the best medical resources just because they cannot afford them. He will support greater health insurance portability so that workers don’t lose their medical coverage when they change jobs. Source: Candidate Website Sep 8, 2001

Rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record.

Lynch scores 100% by the ARA on senior issues

The mission of the Alliance for Retired Americans is to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security. The Alliance believes that all older and retired persons have a responsibility to strive to create a society that incorporates these goals and rights and that retirement provides them with opportunities to pursue new and expanded activities with their unions, civic organizations and their communities.

The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.

Source: ARA website 03n-ARA on Dec 31, 2003

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