Average price of a hearing aid: Over $2,400
Cost of a set of dentures: Over $2,500
Cost of prescription eyeglasses: Over $200
Median income of seniors: About $2,200 a month
In the richest country on earth, we must expand Medicare to include vision, hearing and dental care.
Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family and the entire Capitol Police force. The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife.