Seniors
Hard-working Americans pay into Social Security and Medicare throughout most of their lives and make decisions based on the benefits they have been promised. Congressman Cohen believes that Congress has a duty to ensure their retirement security, which is why he has worked to strengthen Medicare and Social Security. He has consistently voted against measures that would be detrimental to the programs’ security and solvency.
In 2021, Congressman Cohen introduced the Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care Act which would allow Medicare to cover dental services that are necessary for proper treatment of other ailments, such as prosthetic heart valve replacement and certain types of cancer. In 2023, Medicare updated its coverage to include these services. Congressman Cohen continues to support legislation that would expand coverage for services including dental, vision, and hearing.
Congressman Cohen is also supportive of changes to Medicare that will stabilize the payment structure for physicians.
See the bills Congressman Cohen is cosponsoring on Medicare and Social Security.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $455,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the regulation of proteostasis and tauopathy by maltose-induced signaling.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that three Memphis-based arts organizations will receive $45,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Carpenter Art Garden will receive $10,000 to support the design and creation of a mural and a kinetic art installation. The Center for Transforming Communities will receive $10,000 to support the “Measuring Love Fellowship,” an arts research and multidisciplinary storytelling project.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will hold a press availability to celebrate the $3 million appropriation he secured for the renovation of Historic Melrose High School in Orange Mound on Monday, November 27. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and the city’s Housing and Community Development Director Ashley Cash will also speak and take questions.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $674,128 for extended interventions to promote long-term physical activity in African American cancer survivors from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today spoke from the House floor in favor of the debt ceiling compromise, despite some provisions he doesn’t like, and then voted for it. While there was much in the measure that he didn’t like, such as a rollback of environmental regulations and added work requirements for SNAP recipients, he said, “As Members of Congress, we have tough decisions to make.”
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) today introduced the Prioritizing Accountability and Accessibility for Aviation Consumers Act to ensure that passengers with disabilities have up-to-date data on the Department of Transportation’s effectiveness in resolving disability-related complaints ranging from untrained staff at the ticket counter to lost or damaged mobility aids to passenger injuries and more.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will attend this evening’s State of the Union address by President Biden as the nation continues to register major progress in employment, rising wages, investments in infrastructure, ending the COVID-19 pandemic, slowing inflation, and addressing domestic and international threats to democracy. Prior to the President’s remarks, Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $231,000 to study extracellular vesicles from the National Institute on Aging.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care Act to secure critical dental care for the 47 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who do not currently have dental coverage. Congressman Cohen is also working with the Biden Administration which is in the process of implementing executive actions to address some of these needs.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $315,415 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research on functional genetic analysis of epigenetic age acceleration and the regulatory landscape of the methylome.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: