Issue Position: Healthcare that works for everyone

Issue Position

Wellness is more than doctor visits. It also includes exercise and a healthy diet. These opportunities should not be exclusive to the wealthy. Wellness and healthcare should be affordable for all Iowans - especially those with disabilities and mental illness.

We need to address the poor state our health care system in Iowa. Health care costs are skyrocketing and for too many Iowans health care is either unaffordable or inaccessible. The privatization of Medicaid has hurt the most vulnerable people in this state. That's not how Iowans treat Iowans. We need to work towards a bipartisan solution that fixes the sorry state of mental health in Iowa, that includes ensuring accessible substance abuse treatment facilities, confronts our opioid epidemic and provides proper and abundant psychiatric care.

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