Everyone deserves affordable and accessible health care. Today, too many people can't afford health care, even if they have insurance. We’ve got to bring down the cost of health care and prescription drugs by taking on insurance and drug companies. Republicans in Washington are making things worse by taking away people’s coverage and making it more expensive. In 2025, Republicans voted to strip 25,000 people in our district of their health insurance, increase insurance premiums by up to 75%, and close rural hospitals and health care centers. This is unacceptable.

This fight is personal to me. Over the summer, following a routine mammogram, I learned that I was among the 1 in 8 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. I’m grateful that the cancer was detected early, removed successfully, and, as a mom, that I can be around for my kids. But my experience underscored a simple truth: everyone needs affordable and accessible health care, just like I had.

In Congress, I will fight to:

• Fully extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits to bring down insurance costs for at least 24 million Americans who have had them double or even triple.

• Repeal the Big Ugly Bill which kicks 25,000 people off of Medicaid in our district alone, and millions across the country.

• Create a public health insurance option to give people the choice to buy a truly affordable coverage plan to compete with plans on the ACA marketplace.

• Reform the patent system for prescription drugs to prevent the gaming of the system and price inflation by pharmaceutical companies.

• Stop direct-to-consumer advertising by drug companies and increase prescription drug pricing transparency.

• Force drug companies to negotiate with Medicare to lower costs for more prescription drugs.

• Cap the cost of insulin at $35 for all Americans.

• Restore funding for lifesaving cancer research that is improving diagnoses and outcomes every day.

• Pass comprehensive consumer protections that require health insurance companies to provide clear and timely decisions on coverage.

• Hold bad insurance companies accountable for deceptive business practices and ensure that treatment is decided by physicians — not by insurance companies.