Politics & Government

DeLauro Takes Aim at Republican's Medicare Plan [Video]

A Woodbridge Medicare recipient joined DeLauro at Apex Pharmacy in Hamden.

 

Standing alongside Center for Medicare Advocacy director Judy Stein and Woodbridge resident Harvey Adelberg, Rep. Rosa DeLauro spoke against Republican plans to alter Medicare coverage in a press conference at in Hamden Wednesday.

DeLauro, a Democrat who has served eleven terms in Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District, has been a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act, which she helped pass in congress in 2010. She told press she rejects the Republican plan spearheaded by representative and vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan, which would change Medicare to a voucher-based system.

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