Healthcare
Healthcare
Women’s Reproductive Freedom
One of the highest priority health-care issues is women’s reproductive rights. These decisions should be left to women and their doctors. The government, courts, politicians and other outsiders have no business intruding into these health-care decisions. We must protect women’s right to choose.
Expand quality and affordable health care access for all.
A person’s employment, or their parent or guardian’s employment, should not determine the access someone has to quality health care. We should have excellent healthcare for all, regardless of income level. Healthcare is a basic human right.
Currently healthcare costs are too high for most families without support from their employers. In many instances, medical care is not sought out at all because of the cost.
Ohio must stay committed to a strong Medicaid program. Improving Medicaid promotes not only better health and quality of life, but also drives job expansion. Additionally, an expanded Medicaid program lowers drug costs across the board.
Addiction
Opioid addiction and overdoses are a serious and many times preventable problem. We have to get on the front end of this crisis that is killing too many of our precious community members daily. The combination of a pandemic that pushed us all into isolation and certain drug companies taking advantage of an unregulated system put us in this situation. We need to claw our way out of it. The solution, I believe, will require bold solutions. We have to find wholistic ways to connect our citizens with life affirming activities and opportunities.