Issues

Too Big to Care 

Care providers aren’t the problem. It’s the middlemen. A handful of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and giant insurance companies now control prices in secret, deny care by algorithm, and drive up costs for families and employers. Insurance companies shouldn’t profit by denying care on one side while collecting fees on the other. 

When companies can profit while people go without care, they are too big to care.

I will fight to break up insurers and PBMs, force divest from non-insurance businesses, end secret pricing games, algorithmic and electronic medical record price gouging and denials, cut red tape and make sure savings go to patients. 

Keep Our Promises

Protect Social Security. Protect Medicare. And fix the system so being there for the birth or death of a loved one doesn’t bankrupt a family.

Maternal Health and Reproductive Freedom

Protect access to:

• Abortion

• IVF

• Birth control

• Prenatal and postnatal care

• Compassionate miscarriage care
  

Cut the red tape that blocks qualified providers from delivering care.

Mental Health Care

The U.S. doesn’t have a real mental health system. We are long overdue to build one. Expand clinics, integrate care, and scale tele-mental health so help is available when and where people need it.

Veterans, First Responders, and Their Families

Fully deliver the SFC Heath Robinson PACT Act: care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during war. Expand to include veterans exposed to other toxins like Agent Orange. Guarantee care for exposures on the job. Support families who serve alongside service members and first responders. 

Cures

We’re on the brink of breakthroughs — including cures for cancers like the one that took my mom’s life. Those cures were built on public investment.  In the final mile, they should belong to every family in this country — not a handful of CEOs.