I believe healthcare is a basic human right, not a privilege. And as a physician who sees firsthand how insurance companies and the rest of our absurd system fail patients and providers alike, the fight for affordable and accessible healthcare is personal for me. The root cause of our failing healthcare system is special corporate interests that prioritize profit over health and well-being. Massive iInsurance companies buy up their competition, increase premiums and deny claims, pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers jack up prescription drug prices, private equity firms buy up medical practices and cut coverage, and the list goes on. It’s a money-making machine for corporate health insurance executives that reduces patient quality of care, drives up out-of-pocket costs, short changes medical providers and staff, and wastes tens of billions of dollars in ridiculous overhead and administrative costs. The Affordable Care Act was already too expensive for many Americans, and now Donald Trump and Speaker Johnson have gutted the ACA subsidies that over 20 million people relied on. Premiums are skyrocketing while Members of Congress pocket campaign donations from the companies profiting off your misery. We need to extend the ACA credits, but we also need to fix so many other problems that force people to delay or forgo care because of medical debt. In the wealthiest country in human history, no person should be denied the care they need because they don’t have enough money. Our resources should be focused on advancing science and medical care—not funding endless wars or protecting special interests that block innovation and keep care expensive. As your representative in Congress, I will not hesitate to expose the greed and corruption of the healthcare industry, I will never prioritize corporate interests over the health of Americans, and I will relentlessly fight for real policy solutions. That means saving and improving the ACA, lowering prescription drug prices, reforming PBMs, protecting reproductive health care, ending medical debt, breaking up healthcare monopolies, fixing major issues with Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), and finally enacting Medicare for All – universal healthcare that puts patients, families, and providers first.