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Ensure Employee Health Insurance – Provide a tax credit to small businesses that
purchase insurance.
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Reverse New York’s Nursing Shortage – Establish scholarship and loan programs
for nursing students to increase the number of talented, compassionate caregivers who are
often the very first provider patients meet.
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Create EPIC Extra – Allow certain seniors to claim an annual income tax deduction
of up to $1,000 to defray the cost of prescription drugs.
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Provide Long-Term Health Care Insurance – Provide seniors a Personal Income Tax
credit for ten percent of the cost of long-term health care insurance premiums.
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HMO Premium Adjustment – Protect individuals and businesses from higher health
care premiums.
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Elderly Dental Insurance Coverage (EDIC) – Help seniors gain access to much-needed
routine and comprehensive dental care.