Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

*Expanded access to quality and affordable healthcare coverage for millions of Californians

*Ended harmful insurance company practices like denying coverage for pre-existing conditions and dropping you from coverage if you get sick

*Strengthened Medicare by closing the "donut hole," providing free preventive care for seniors, and extending the solvency of the Medicare Trust Fund

*Fought against efforts to end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher program

*Working with Republicans and Democrats to ensure the new health care law works for every Valley resident

*Fighting to establish a UC Merced Medical School

*Brought hundreds of thousands of dollars to train medical professionals here in the Valley

*Brought $167 million for rural healthcare clinics

*Helped start the Regional Burn and Trauma Centers

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