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Our Priorities
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Read about NSCLC's work and our priorities.
NSCLC is the only national organization focusing specifically on issues affecting the elderly poor and disabled.
NSCLC:
- advocates for elderly and disabled poor people in legislative and administrative policymaking in Washington D.C.;
- litigates on issues having broad impact;
- trains, informs and assists local advocates to provide the best possible representation.
NSCLC's Priorities
Protect Health Care and Income Security Benefits: Prevent Medicaid cutbacks, improve Medicare Part D's dysfunctional program for low-income people, improve access to long-term care and overturn a variety of unfair Social Security and SSI policies.
Advocate for Quality Long-Term Care: Assisted living (or “nursing home lite”) is growing rapidly and without many protections for residents. NSCLC works for standards and protections in assisted living, and for enforcement of nursing home protections.
Encourage Alternatives To Institutionalization: The federal government supplies six of every ten dollars spent on long-term care but gets less for its money because of its bias toward institutional care.
Resist Erosion of Federal Rights: Opponents to a federal role in protecting minorities and poor people seek to eliminate the individual’s rights to sue government agencies and Congress’ right to pass civil rights laws. NSCLC’s Herbert Semmel Federal Rights Project opposes those efforts and works to preserve the role of Congress and the courts in protecting civil rights and access to health care and income security programs.