March 13, 2008
Congressional Candidate Tracey Brooks Meets with
Health Care Representatives from Hospitals, Home Care Agencies, Community Health Centers
and Emergency Responders
Tracey Brooks, Congressional candidate in the Capital
Region’s 21st District, has been meeting with state and local health
care leaders from throughout the region, discussing the current State and
Federal health care budgets and proposed cuts, issues impacting the local
health care community and ideas for improving our health care delivery system.
“We need to provide comprehensive health care reform and the
only way to do that right is to work with both those receiving and those
delivering health care services,” said Brooks. “We must address the rising
costs of health care, expand affordable health care options, increase
incentives for medical research and innovation, and ensure that everyone in America
receives health care. These are the right priorities for the Capital Region and
for our country.”
Brooks continued: “I am committed to working with our 13
hospitals in the District, which employ 15,000 people, to ensure those jobs
stay here while at the same time improving services and making our health care
safety net more efficient. We also must address the unfunded mandates that are
crippling emergency medical volunteer services.”
As the Capital Region Director for Senator Hillary Clinton
for the last three years, Tracey Brooks has worked closely with local health
care leaders, advocates and providers. She has been fighting for home health
care, community-based health clinics, local Hospice and other health care
providers who allow loved ones to receive health care in the home or in a
dignified manner of their choice.
“I will continue to work hard in Washington and here locally, to make sure
that everyone in the Capital Region has access to the right health care
service, at the right time and for the right price.”
As a lifelong resident of the Albany area, Brooks has a working knowledge
of the problems facing the region and experience in finding solutions to them. Brooks
has spent much of her time since announcing her candidacy visiting nurses,
doctors, health care administrators, and families receiving various forms of
health care, across all seven counties of the District.
“I’m focused on the serious issues like passing meaningful
legislation that will bring better and broader health care coverage, more jobs
and economic opportunity and a better quality of life for all the people of the
Capital Region,” concluded Brooks.
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