Keeping health care affordable and accessible:

• Fought to prevent the closure of St. Joseph’s Hospital, keeping core hospital services and a state-of-the-art emergency department in the community

• Rejected a proposal to make EPIC drugs subject to prior authorization, so seniors will be able to continue getting the medications they need without facing unnecessary obstacles

• Rejected elimination of anti-depressants from the Preferred Drug List, ensuring these medications remain available and affordable to those who need them

Keeping you safe:

• Sponsored legislation that increases penalties for assaulting a person over 65 (Ch. 68 of 2008)

• Sponsored legislation that increases penalties if more than one elderly person is victimized by a scam artist (A.9813)

• Sponsored legislation that would require the New York State Police to develop education materials for law enforcement on elder abuse (A.9905)

Increasing property tax relief:

• Fought to increase Enhanced STAR property tax rebates by 40 percent

• Eligible senior homeowners in the Lancaster School District will receive an average Enhanced STAR rebate of $320

• For more information about the STAR rebate program, call 1-877-678-2769 or visit www.orps.state.ny.us/star