Care for Aging / Sick

Cornyn co-sponsored the Improving Care Coordination for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Act and has championed Older Americans Act reauthorization and the Lifespan Respite Care caregiver-support program funding. He supports Medicare Advantage expansion as the preferred private-sector alternative to public-option proposals and has consistently voted against converting Medicare into a public option. He has been a primary author of rural-hospital relief legislation targeting Texas closures and supports the rural emergency hospital designation funding. He opposes Social Security tax-cap elimination but has not signed onto direct benefit cuts and has supported solvency frameworks raising the retirement age gradually. He has voted against every recent Medicaid expansion proposal and supports converting Medicaid to a block-grant framework giving states more flexibility — and less federal funding growth.