Issue Position: Make Healthcare a Right, Not a Job Perk

Issue Position

Healthcare is a human right, not a job perk, and a pandemic is precisely the time to ensure that healthcare is affordable and accessible to every American. In Congress, Jake will work for a public option to build on Obamacare, for increased federal funding towards basic medical research, and for the right to choose.

Jake believes that building on Obamacare is the most effective way to extend coverage and expand quality care. While the president and his Republican allies in Congress have gutted Obamacare, Jake will work to improve upon the protections guaranteed in President Obama's original legislation. This includes strengthening the individual mandate, expanding reinsurance, and better aligning incentives between the public and private sectors for healthcare research and delivery. Jake will fight to protect any attempts to privatize or cut social security, Medicare, or Medicaid.

Having grown up in a family of physicians, scientists, and public health officials, Jake also appreciates healthcare and the life sciences as a public service and an engine of the Massachusetts economy. From his own family, he has seen the dedication that healthcare workers bring to patient care and to the front lines of this pandemic.

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