President Trump has delivered for America’s seniors throughout his presidency by lowering their healthcare costs, strengthening Medicare and Social Security, protecting seniors from COVID-19, building the best economy in American history, safeguarding seniors from fraud, giving our veterans choice in healthcare, and standing up for law and order. To reinforce his commitment to the wellbeing of America’s seniors, President Trump promises to keep America’s Seniors SAFE through his plan of Security, Affordability, Fairness, and Economy (SAFE).
SECURITY: Seniors are the President’s number one priority in the pandemic. By leading the greatest mobilization since World War II, President Trump surged millions of personal protective equipment (PPE) and rapid point of care tests to our nursing homes and vulnerable communities.
President Trump promises to:
✓ Provide seniors with therapeutics for COVID-19
✓ Make sure our seniors are prioritized to get a vaccine for free
✓ Permanently expand telehealth services
✓ Further expand choices available to veterans
AFFORDABILITY: Since taking office, President Trump has lowered Medicare Advantage premiums, lowered drug coverage premiums, and is lowering out of pocket costs of insulin.
President Trump promises to:
✓ Continue to lower Medicare health plan premiums and prescription drug costs
✓ Always protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security while providing more choice, lower costs, and better care
✓ Provide prescription drug discount cards to over 35 million seniors
FAIRNESS: President Trump has empowered Federal agencies to protect and support seniors.
President Trump promises to:
✓ Aggressively go after criminals that target senior citizens
✓ Provide relief and support for seniors who are raising their grandchildren
✓ Stand with our law enforcement and first responders
✓ Protect the dignity and value of every human life—no matter how young or how old
✓ Honor the contributions of previous generations to the great American story
✓ Fight back against attempts to teach our children to be ashamed of this country and their heritage
ECONOMY: Prior to the pandemic, President Trump delivered the strongest economy in decades.
The President is bringing the country out of this pandemic and restoring the economy.
President Trump promises to:
✓ Cut taxes
✓ Roll back stifling regulations
✓ Keep America energy independent
✓ Bring jobs, manufacturing, and factories back to America
✓ Enact fair trade deals
✓ Build the world’s greatest infrastructure
✓ Encourage the flow of capital into America’s forgotten communities
PROTECTING YOUR HEALTH:
MORE CHOICE
• Provided more choices on how to receive care through telehealth expansion
• Added 2,100 more Medicare Advantage plans operating in 2021 than in 2017, a 76.6% increase
• Added 11% more drug plan options for seniors in 2020
LOWER COSTS
• Lowered premiums for seniors:
– Average monthly Medicare Advantage premiums are the lowest in 14 years and have declined by 34% since 2017
– Medicare drug coverage premiums dropped by over 12% since 2017, resulting in nearly $1.9 billion in premium savings
• Signed four Executive Orders to lower prescription drug costs
• Created new online tools to compare prices, quality and check benefits
• Provided seniors with diabetes on Medicare hundreds of new plan choices that offer insulin for no more than $35 for a month’s supply, a 66% savings on average
BETTER CARE
• Invested heavily in research and innovative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, pediatric cancer,
kidney disease, Sickle Cell Disease, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19
• Covered over 300 new treatments, including for cancer and diabetic pumps
• Proposed Medicare coverage of breakthrough devices the same day as FDA approval
END THE THREAT OF COVID-19
• Expanded flexibilities for telehealth services so that Medicare beneficiaries living in all areas of the country could receive convenient and high-quality care from the comfort of their home
• Provided nearly one billion dollars in grants to support home-delivered meals and in-home care for the elderly and disabled
• Quickly acted to secure our VETERANS healthcare facilities, and deployed hundreds of VA staff to help out in nursing homes nationwide
• Protected nursing homes and vulnerable communities:
– Required all nursing home staff to be tested on a regular basis and report results to families and residents
– Made COVID-19 prevention training available to all nursing homes
– Delivered millions of rapid point of care testing devices
– Provided multiple shipments of PPE to nursing homes across the country
– Distributed over $21 billion to America’s nursing homes – more than $1 million per nursing home on average
• Improved outcomes
– Because of new therapies and improvement in care, the mortality rate from COVID-19 for individuals over 70 has declined by 72% from March to September
PROTECTING THE SAVINGS YOU SPENT A LIFETIME BUILDING:
ELDER JUSTICE
• Filed a landmark action to shut down some of the Nation’s largest carriers of fraudulent robocalls, responsible for processing billions of fraudulent robocalls a year
• Launched the National Elder Fraud Hotline (1-833-FRAUD-1-1), which provides services by trained counsellors to adults ages 60 and older who may be victims of financial fraud. The Hotline provided services to approximately 2,800 victims of elder fraud in its first five months
• Required hospitals to post standard prices on the internet
DEFENDING THE COUNTRY YOU BUILT:
AMERICAN VALUES
• Invested more than $2 trillion to completely rebuild the Military, including $738 billion this year
• Established the Space Force as the sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces
• Protected the rights of religious believers to worship freely and follow their consciences
• Argued successfully at the Supreme Court that a Memorial Cross dedicated to the memory of servicemen who died in World War I should remain standing
• Signed an Executive Order to close loopholes that previous administrations used to avoid buy-American hire-American rules for purchasing and hiring
SAFE AND SECURE COMMUNITIES
• Launched Operation Legend to help cities across the Nation plagued with violence, resulting in more than 1,000 arrests
• Prosecuted anarchists who aim to destroy our cities and bully and intimidate our seniors
• Used the Veteran Memorial Preservation Act to protect our national monuments
VETERANS
• Signed the VA MISSION Act, which allowed more than 2.5 million veterans real and permanent choice to get the care they need and deserve
• Delivered better care through VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, same-day urgent primary and mental healthcare, and the 24-hour White House Veteran Hotline
• Provided record investment in our military to make it as strong as it was under the Greatest Generation