Like the vast majority of Americans, I believe that healthcare is a human right, and I will make Medicare for All one of my major legislative priorities. 

Among the grotesquery that was the “Big, Beautiful Bill” and the rhetoric that preceded it, there was one echoing sound-bite parroted by every Republican lawmaker (including MI-01’s own partisan transplant, Jack Bergman): in the only developed nation that doesn’t provide it’s citizens with healthcare, some felt yet too many, undeserving people were receiving healthcare, and they were willing to jettison millions of our most vulnerable, raise private insurance premiums, close rural hospitals and nursing homes, and accept the deaths of tens of thousands of people to ensure that a fictious subsect of people didn’t receive access to basic care. 

It is no longer adequate to propose incremental improvements, tweaking the edges of our broken healthcare system. It is long past time for the wealthiest nation in history to join the rest of the modern world in acknowledging healthcare as a basic human right and providing it to all citizens, regardless of age, income, or employment. That means free healthcare that is universal, comprehensive, and inclusive with no premiums, co-pays, or deductibles. Quality healthcare when you need it, without concern for networks or state lines, eliminating inhumane claim denials, care avoidance, and the threat of medical debt forever.