Affordable Health Care for All
The COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrating, now more than ever, the weaknesses inherent within our current healthcare system. As people are losing their jobs, they are losing their insurance. That families in a country like America cannot afford to see a doctor during a global health emergency is appalling.
Hospitals are also experiencing the financial strain of a profit-based system: making the unbelievable choice of postponing elective, and in some cases needed, surgeries, health care systems are facing financial difficulties during this crisis the likes of which we have not seen.
Jamie Belsito will fight to rewrite the way we pay for healthcare in this country.
Expand Medicaid
Our country needs to fully implement the Affordable Care Act and expand Medicaid to all of those who need it. The United States is the leading country in the world, and no one should be without healthcare. We need a healthcare system that is not just driven by shareholder profits, but instead, by caring for all of our citizens.
Women’s Health Care Should Never be Political
Decisions around women’s reproductive care must remain between the patient and the doctor. It is high time for equality when it comes to choice and cost in health care for women. Women’s healthcare should not be more expensive than care for men.
Reduce the Costs of Prescription Drugs
No one should have to choose between food or medicine. Not seniors on fixed incomes. Not parents struggling to care for families. I will fight to make sure people in this district are never forced to make this type of decision. We must look at ways to end financially prohibitive access to needed prescription medication and to burdensome medical costs.
Improve Access to Medical Education
Two decades ago, Congress limited the number of doctoral residencies in the United States. We need to get rid of such an archaic law and produce more doctors. Rural areas need equal and adequate access to physicians, too. We need to look at how we support those students willing to go into medical school. The financial burden of medical education is prohibitive and must be eased.
Address Gun Violence & Violence against Women as a Public Health Crisis
The American Medical Association (AMA) is on record stating that gun violence in the United States is a public health issue, and has called upon Congress to address an assault weapons ban. We need to make sure that the Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA) is fully funded and put on the books permanently. VAWA funding is used to strengthen and improve existing programs that assist victims and survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. An average of 52 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner every month in the United States.
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