Affordable Healthcare
“I was diagnosed with breast cancer this year and got hit up with half a million dollars of treatment costs, I was just lucky to have an employer who provides good health insurance. Even then, the cost was too much. We cannot have a society that at the first moment of medical crisis spins you into a financial crisis, but that is where the United States is heading at the moment. This cannot be! “
Access to quality healthcare is the foundation of a thriving society. Healthcare must be treated as a human right, not a privilege, and as essential to a strong economy and healthy communities. The crisis is only getting more accurate, as a Republican Congress declines to extent Affordable Care Act subsidies. I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and received bills totaling half a million dollars. Our healthcare system is broken. To fix it, I will fight for:
Protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Funding mental health treatment as the federal government slashes support for these programs.
Investing in public health infrastructure, including funding public hospitals and expanding mobile and rural healthcare services to address inequities.
Creating a “Medicare for All” public health insurance option or similar public coverage plan.
Trump-proofing healthcare, including reproductive health, abortion, and transition-related care by transgender patients by innovating in models or care and funding through the state.
Penalizing insurers who act in bad faith by repeatedly denying care.
