Issue Position: Improving Healthcare

Issue Position

Access to affordable health care is critical to quality of life in the Capital Region and to the success of American small businesses trying to compete in a global market that gets larger every day. The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010, is far from a perfect law. That is why we have to respond to challenges in our health care system and fix the parts of the ACA that don't work while moving forward with the provisions that do. As the health law's implementation proceeds, we are seeing seniors who no longer have to choose between prescription drugs or putting food on the table. Sick or injured Americans are no longer being dropped from their plans simply because they are unwell or have a preexisting condition. Women can no longer be discriminated against simply based on their gender. And young adults can stay on their family's plan. Our spiraling health care costs are now growing at the slowest rate in decades. In Congress, I will continue to work with local and state leaders to improve the health care delivery system, focus on prevention and fix what's broken.

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