I believe healthcare is a basic human right, not a privilege. As a physician who sees firsthand how insurance companies and the rest of our absurd system fail patients and providers alike, the fight for Medicare for All is personal for me. Every day, I see working families getting crushed by the health insurance industry. Premiums feel like a second mortgage. Treatments are denied while patients are getting sicker. As a doctor, I am forced to waste my time fighting insurance companies. In the richest country the world has ever known, no one should be choosing between rent and medical bills. That's not a healthcare system – it’s a scam to enrich CEOs. As your Congressman, I will fight for: Medicare for All. The root cause of our failing healthcare system is a choice to protect a greedy industry that prioritizes profit over health and well-being. We need universal, single-payer healthcare with no out-of-pocket costs. Crucially, Medicare for All would also expand coverage to include hearing, dental, and vision insurance. Empowering Medicare to negotiate prescription drug pricing. Americans are paying far more for prescription drugs than the rest of the world. It is time to join other countries in empowering the government to negotiate the prices of lifesaving drugs. Reining in pharmacy middlemen. Powerful corporate middlemen called Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are manipulating drug prices. They drive up drug costs for patients and hurt independent pharmacies – it’s time to break them up and rein in their power. Fighting hospital consolidation. Consolidation across the healthcare industry is driving up costs. I will fight for policies that benefit patients, not megacorporations. Medical debt cancellation. Our broken system is forcing people to choose between their health and going into debt. In Congress, I will support the Medical Debt Cancellation Act to eliminate the $220B in medical debt weighing down working families through no fault of their own. Maternal health. As a physician, husband, and father, maternal health is a top priority for me. Black women are several times more likely to face maternal health challenges in this country, and I commit to supporting legislation to address that disparity, especially with regard to the Black maternal mortality rate. The right to reproductive healthcare. Control over your own body should not depend on where you live. The draconian policies enacted after the overturning of Roe v Wade is a stain on our country and I support codifying the right to abortion in federal law. Politicians need to stay out of decisions between doctors and patients.