Campaign Action
The stress of living paycheck to paycheck is making hard-working families sicker than ever. Our future depends on national leaders stepping up and accepting the challenge to provide every American with health care that will move our country forward.
We must start talking about getting healthy in America. Below I have outlined how we can start the conversation.
We must move away from a disease-care system to prioritizing preventative health. Food is medicine, and we need to prioritize the role nutrition plays in our health care system. What we eat impacts our overall health and well-being.
We must talk honestly, openly, and compassionately about mental health. Too many Americans suffer from stress, anxiety, addiction, and depression, which impact our daily lives on a level too critical to hide. A healthy America is a better America for everyone.
We must move quickly and with determination to bring drug prices under control. We can no longer allow Big Pharma to pull the wool over our eyes by claiming these astronomical prices are to make up for their research and development costs while putting hundreds of billions of dollars into stock buybacks and dividends for shareholders. No family should have to worry about paying for insulin over food.
We must have a comprehensive approach to the opioid epidemic. That includes combining law enforcement, prevention, treatment, recovery support, overdose reversal, and criminal justice initiatives. And it means strengthening social services – recovery services, child care services, job placement, and more to help people transition from treatment to recovery.
We can no longer afford to wait or play political games with our health. As I run for President, I’m going to continue speaking out on America’s health crisis because now is the time to make health care affordable and accessible for all Americans.
Will you join me?