Clinton Vows to Expand Senior Care Options, Workforce

“The lost wages and the work that is sometimes given up are costing families – especially women, who make up the majority of both paid and unpaid caregivers”, Clinton told the crowd of more than 400 people, reports LA Times.

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Clinton focused on on a number of topics and addressed problems that keep many Americans awake at night, like making it possible for families to provide care for loved ones.

In the USA today, there are more than $470 billion dollars in unpaid medical bills. In 1999, President Clinton – with his First Lady by his side – proposed a package of tax incentives to help pay for long-term care, including a $1,000 tax credit for some family caregivers. But she also praised her approach to proposing help for people who take time off work to care for relatives.

This proposal is part of a series of tax cuts that Clinton plans to roll out in the coming weeks. Her plan promised to “demand a stop to excessive profiteering and marketing by denying tax breaks for direct-to-consumer advertising and demanding that drug companies invest in R&D in exchange for taxpayer support – rather than marketing or excessive profits”. On her campaign website, Clinton calls for reducing the cost of prescription drugs, noting, “Prescription drug spending accelerated from 2.5 percent in 2013 to 12.6 percent in 2014”.

Jake Quinn, an uncommitted Democratic superdelegate from North Carolina, said he was concerned about Mrs. Clinton’s willingness to clamp down on Wall Street malfeasance. Essentially, she intends to boost support for care workers and increase funding for a program that offers state-level grants to programs for caregivers, reported the Los Angeles Times.

Caregivers would also see added Social Security benefits under Clinton’s plan, which is expected to be rolled out a town hall meeting in Iowa on Sunday afternoon, the aide said.

“I would hope every candidate would join me in saying finally, finally, health care must be a right for all people”, Sanders said in a not-so-thinly veiled jab at Clinton.

Most of her remarks stuck to pocketbook issues, but Clinton did divert momentarily to praise the Iowa Hawkeyes college football team and its 11-0 record. Clinton has said she will introduce another way to pay for a paid leave program that does not raise taxes on middle-class families.