Healthcare
Healthcare should be a human right, not a privilege for the wealthy. For that reason, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez proudly supports H.R.1976: Medicare for All Act of 2021, which creates a single-payer system that guarantees healthcare for all, regardless of income or employment status, while eliminating copays and premiums.
The Congresswoman also helped pass the Inflation Reduction Act into law, which allows Medicare to directly negotiate prescription drug prices; caps insulin to $35 for those with Medicare coverage; limits Medicare out-of-pocket costs to $2,000 per year; and extends government subsidies for health insurance purchased on the exchange.
For more on the Congresswoman’s work on healthcare, please read on below.
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Washington, D.C. - Today Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-12) led New York’s entire Democratic Congressional delegation in writing to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy requesting a meeting to discuss the unprecedented attacks on New York State’s health funding.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) recognized the New York State Nurses Association Strike during a speech on the House Floor. Watch the full floor speech here. A transcript of the speech can be found below:
President Biden recently signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law. The IRA is designed to reduce inflation, fight climate change, lower the cost of health care , and make the wealthiest pay their fair share. Here are some of the wins we secured in the bill:
QUEENS, N.Y. --- U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Representative Grace Meng, member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will stand in front of Elmhurst Hospital to advocate for the much-needed renovation of New York City Health + Hospitals Elmhurst Obstetrical Inpatient facilities, in order to provide a more modern, safe, and equitable maternal health care experience to surrounding working class and immigrant communities. They will be joined by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Dr.
THE BRONX, NY - On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman urged Congress to provide nearly $400,000 to Jacobi Hospital's youth violence reduction program - ‘Stand Up to Violence.' This press conference followed a violent Memorial Day, in which more than a dozen were shot and a 15-year-old Bronxite was killed in shootings across all five boroughs.
By Stephen M. Lepore at PIX11
Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney (AP)
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NEW YORK — The Big Apple’s two members of the so-called “squad” are co-sponsoring a new “Medicare For All” bill that was introduced in Congress this week, but so are several other members of the tri-state area’s Congressional delegated.
Several progressive members of the House Democratic Caucus joined a livestreamed conversation on health care reform on Wednesday and attacked what they said was widespread greed and fraud in the pharmaceutical and health care industries.
By Mark Moore at The New York Post
Rookie Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back at critics who say her progressive agenda is too radical and expensive, saying there’s nothing revolutionary about providing people with good jobs, health care and an education.
“When you can’t provide for your kids working a full-time job, working two full-time jobs. When you can’t have health care. That is not dignified,” Ocasio-Cortez told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday.