Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

No one should ever be forced to choose between putting food on their table and paying their medical bills. But for far too many families, that choice is inevitable -- as health care remains incredibly expensive.

Roughly 20 percent of the average Mainer's income goes to paying for health care, so it's clear that the Affordable Care Act is not perfect. But the repeal-and-replace options presented by Congress this past year would only exacerbate the problems Americans are already facing. It's time that senators work together -- across the aisle -- to provide more comprehensive, less expensive health care for the tens of millions of Americans in desperate need of a hand. Senator King is committed to doing just that.

He has proposed several solutions that would strengthen our health care system, including legislation to stabilize premiums and expand the ACA's cost-sharing reduction payment program in order to keep insurance affordable and accessible to as many Americans as possible.
He has fought for funding to find a cure to end Alzheimer's, a devastating disease that is forecasted to plague more than 53,000 Mainers by 2020.
Senator King has also cosponsored a series of bill that would lower prescription drug prices for senior citizens and other Americans in need, allowing them to get the lifesaving medicine that is all too often exorbitantly expensive.

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