Issue Position: Providing Quality Health Care

Issue Position

Kathleen is committed to ensuring access to quality and affordable healthcare for all Floridians, but not by expanding broken systems such as Medicaid and Obamacare that rely on borrowed Federal dollars. Kathleen voted against expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, favoring a Florida-based solution that protects future generations of taxpayers from being on the hook for billions of dollars.

Kathleen co-sponsored legislation in 2018 that will confront the opioid crisis by increasing regulation, training and reporting currently required when prescribing and dispensing controlled substances (2018, HB 21). Kathleen also sponsored legislation to allow Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care (PPEC) centers to provide inpatient, 24-hour a day treatment to infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, providing a community-based care option, rather than hospitalization, after an infant has been stabilized (2018, SB 434). As a member of the Senate Health Care Appropriations Committee, Kathleen is working to provide more accountability of tax payer dollars for service to our citizens.

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