Issue Position: Expanding Access to Affordable Healthcare

Issue Position

Health insurance is fundamental to a productive, healthy citizenry. When the federal government makes cuts to our healthcare, Americans who go without insurance have no place to go when they are sick, and as a result, they frequently end up in emergency rooms like ours at University Medical Center. Emergency rooms are where care is the costliest, and where people go when they are the sickest.

There should be no doubt that Obamacare expanded coverage for millions of Americans. And while some El Pasoans enjoyed an increase of coverage as a result of Obamacare, our state refused the Medicaid expansion, leaving thousands of El Pasoans without care. The current debate at the national level is focused on cutting care -- especially healthcare to women -- and giving tax-cuts to the wealthiest Americans. We should instead be focused on fixing a broken healthcare system and covering more Americans, especially those in need of mental health-care and those like El Paso residents, whose states refuse to allow them access to coverage.

I will fight for health coverage for all. The only way to care for everyone is to have a single payer healthcare system, and I will work tirelessly at the federal level as I did at the local level to ensure you have access to quality healthcare.

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