2024 CANDIDATE ENDORSEMENTS

The Committee to Protect Health Care endorses candidates who exhibit a commitment to working toward solutions to the health care issues people across the United States face every day: Lack of affordable or adequate health coverage, high prescription drug costs, and threats to reproductive health care services.

A mobilization of over 20,000 physicians, other medical professionals, and health care advocates across the United States, the Committee fights to ensure everyone has the care they need to thrive.

The Committee’s endorsements are determined by a combination of candidate questionnaires, candidate screenings and meetings, and a determination of aligned values on the issue of health care.

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ENDORSED CANDIDATES:

AAAAAKamala Harris

  • President
  • United States
  • Incumbent
  • Competitive
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Abby Klomparens

  • State Representative
  • MI
  • District 86
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Abdi Daisane

  • State Representative
  • MN
  • District 14A
  • Competitive
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Adam Frisch

  • US House
  • CO
  • District 3
  • Competitive
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Adam Lee

  • State Representative
  • ME
  • District 89
  • Incumbent
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Adriano Espaillat

  • US House
  • NY
  • District 13
  • Incumbent
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Aisha Farooqi

  • State Representative
  • MI
  • District 57
  • Competitive
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Aisha Gomez

  • State Representative
  • MN
  • District 62A
  • Incumbent
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Al Green

  • US House
  • TX
  • District 9
  • Incumbent
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Alan Kupsik

  • State Representative
  • WI
  • District 33
  • Competitive
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Alex Falconer

  • State Representative
  • MN
  • District 49A
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Alex Joers

  • State Representative
  • WI
  • District 81
  • Incumbent
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Alex Taylor

  • State Representative
  • PA
  • District 46
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

  • US House
  • NY
  • District 14
  • Incumbent
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Alison Page

  • State Representative
  • WI
  • District 30
  • Competitive
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Alma Adams

  • US House
  • NC
  • District 12
  • Incumbent
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THE ISSUES FACING EACH STATE:

Prescription Drug Costs and Access

  • Continue the ongoing efforts of Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) to conduct its analysis, public meetings, and recommendations to reduce the cost of prescription drugs and increase access to cost-prohibitive prescription drugs.
  • Reject carve-outs that exempt specific, high-cost prescription drug classes and designations from affordability review.

Patient Costs

  • Build on the progress of the previous session to establish additional “facility fee” regulation that ensures patients do not pay additional hidden fees for medical services.

“Colorado Option” and Health Insurance

  • Refine and strengthen the Colorado Option to ensure its continued success in lowering costs, increasing accessibility, and improving health outcomes for Coloradans.

Reproductive Rights

  • Decisions about reproductive health care should be left to patients and their medical professionals, because politicians are never more qualified than women and their doctors to make health care decisions.

Prescription Drug Costs

  • Establish a Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) to analyze, review, and execute solutions–including setting upper payment limits on high-cost drugs–to lower prescription drug costs.

Health Insurance Coverage and Access

  • Additional regulation on insurance companies’ ‘prior authorization’ practices to help curtail delays, administrative burdens, medical interference, and increased health care costs.
  • Implementation of a state-based health insurance marketplace for policies sold as part of the Affordable Care Act with additional state funding for in-state organizations that help consumers navigate the marketplace and enroll in coverage.
  • Establish a state-based public health insurance option as a Medicaid buy-in option that would offer a high-quality, low-cost coverage option to Illinoisans.

Hospital Pricing

  • Ensure future hospital mergers to ensure consolidation serves the public good, not just private interests.
  • Reform hospital facility fees including: site, service, and billing limits; mandating data reporting on facility charges; and greater transparency of facility fees through fee approximations.

Reproductive Rights

  • Decisions about reproductive health care remain between patients and their medical professionals, because politicians are never more qualified than women and their doctors to make health care decisions.

Prescription Drug Costs

  • Continue the ongoing efforts of Maine’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) to conduct its analysis, public meetings, and recommendations to reduce the cost of prescription drugs and increase access to cost-prohibitive prescription drugs.
  • Build on the progress of the Inflation Reduction Act by universally applying Medicare’s negotiated prescription drug rates to all Mainers.

Consumer Prices

  • Reform hidden hospital facility fees including: bans on facility fees for telehealth services, requirements that facilities itemize their facility fees in bills and statements, or impose limitations on certain facilities’ ability to charge facility fees.
  • Address medical debt that provides financial assistance plans, regulates hospital notification procedures, and ensures funding for these initiatives.

Reproductive Rights

  • Advance a statewide ballot initiative to enshrine the right to reproductive autonomy in the state constitution.
  • Reject any attempts to roll back Maine’s protections for patients to receive critical reproductive health care services, because politicians are never more qualified than women and their doctors to make health care decisions.

Reproductive Rights

  • Decisions about reproductive health care should be left to patients and their medical professionals, because politicians are never more qualified than women and their doctors to make health care decisions.

Prescription Drugs Cost and Access

  • Establish a Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) to analyze, review, and execute solutions–including setting upper payment limits on high-cost drugs–to lower prescription drug costs.
  • Build on the progress of the Inflation Reduction Act by universally applying Medicare’s negotiated prescription drug rates to all Michiganders.
  • Reform step therapy, or “fail first” insurance practices, to ensure patients receive effective treatment on the recommended timeline by their physician or other health care providers.

State-Based Marketplace

  • Establish a state-based health insurance marketplace to increase health care coverage and decrease costs for residents; provide MDHHS with real-time data to meet the needs of residents; and provide flexibility for state-tailored enrollment strategies to reach residents in need of coverage.

Hospital Consolidation and Costs

  • Curb rising health care and hospital costs to ensure patients are able to afford the care they need, without forgoing other basic necessities like groceries and utility bills.
  • Ensure future hospital mergers and health care consolidation serve the public good, not just private interests.

Paid Family and Medical Leave

  • Pass the Family Leave Optimal Coverage Act in Michigan to ensure that Michiganders can take necessary leave from employment to care for their health, or family members’ health, without fear of jeopardizing their financial stability.

Prescription Drug Affordability Board

  • Continue implementation of the Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) to reduce the cost of prescription medications for Minnesota residents.

Public Health Care Option

  • Finance and implement a state-based public health care option to increase accessibility and affordability of health care for Minnesotans who are uninsured or enrolled in high-deductible plans through the individual market that are too expensive to use.

Patient Costs

  • Further reform insurance companies’ “prior authorization” practices to ensure timely access to necessary medical treatments for all Minnesotans. 
  • Reform practice of hospital facility fees–including implementing site, service, and billing limits; mandating data reporting on facility charges; and greater transparency of facility fees through disclosures.

Paid Family and Medical Leave

  • Continue implementation of the Paid Family and Medical Leave program to ensure that Minnesota families can care for their health and/or loved ones without fear of jeopardizing their financial stability.

Health Care Consolidation

  • Ensure future hospital, clinic, or health center consolidation serves the public good, not just private interests.

Reproductive Rights

  • Pass the Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to provide constitutional protections for reproductive rights in Minnesota.
  • Expand insurance coverage requirements to include in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Prescription Drug Affordability Board

  • Establish a Prescription Drug Affordability Board in New Mexico to help control the rising costs of prescription medications and ensure affordability, access, and availability for all residents.

Paid Family and Medical Leave Act 

  • Establish a statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave program to ensure all New Mexico families can care for their health and/or loved ones without fear of jeopardizing their financial stability.

Medicaid Forward

  • Implement Medicaid Forward should OSI conclude the program will reduce the state’s uninsured population.

Reproductive Rights

  • Decisions about reproductive health care should be left to patients and their medical professionals, because politicians are never more qualified than women and their doctors to make health care decisions.

NV Public Option

  • Implement additional measures to fulfill the goals of the Nevada Public Option, support the federal waiver process and approval, and remove politically manufactured barriers to its implementation.

Prescription Drugs

  • Build on the progress of the Inflation Reduction Act by universally applying Medicare’s newly negotiated prescription drug rates to all Michiganders.

Paid Family and Medical Leave

  • Continued support of the current Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) legislation.
  • Expand the PFML program to cover 100% of a worker’s salary, with caps for high wage earners, while on leave, so Nevada families can care for their health and/or loved ones without jeopardizing their financial stability.

Reproductive Rights

  • Enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution through a constitutional amendment to ensure decisions are made between a patient and their medical professionals, because politicians are never more qualified than women and their doctors to make health care decisions.

Prescription Drug Costs

  • Establish a Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) to lower prescription drug costs for Pennsylvania residents that can set upper payment limits (UPLs) on high-cost drugs.

Health Care Consolidation

  • Ensure any future hospital, clinic, or health center consolidation serves the public good, not just private interests.

Reproductive Health Care

  • Oppose any new restrictions on reproductive health care services including, but not limited to, abortion access, contraception, or in vitro fertilization IVF.
  • Hold a statewide constitutional amendment referendum on “personal reproductive liberty” and the “fundamental right to exercise personal reproductive liberty and make and effectuate decisions regarding the individual’s own reproduction.”

Paid Family and Medical Leave

  • Implement and expand Paid Family and Medical Leave in Pennsylvania to ensure that Pennsylvania families can care for their health and/or loved ones without fear of jeopardizing their financial stability.

BadgerCare Expansion

  • Expand Wisconsin’s Medicaid program, BadgerCare, as made possible by the Affordable Care Act, to bring additional funding into the state to ensure health insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands more Wisconsin residents.

12-Month Postpartum Medicaid Coverage

  • Extend Wisconsin’s federally mandated 60-day postpartum coverage period to 12-months guaranteed.

Prescription Drug Affordability

  • Establish a Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) in Wisconsin to help control the rising costs of prescription medications and ensure affordability, access, and availability for all residents.

Reproductive Rights

  • Repeal Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban to ensure access to critical reproductive health care services.
  • Guarantee the right to access contraception in Wisconsin, ensuring that individuals can make personal reproductive health decisions without political interference.
  • Oppose a statewide abortion ban, because politicians are never more qualified than women and their doctors to make health care decisions.

Paid Family and Medical Leave

  • Implement a 14-week Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program in Wisconsin to ensure families can care for their health and/or loved ones without fear of jeopardizing their financial stability.

Affordable Care Act and Medicaid

  • Defend the Affordable Care Act from any and all threats, including direct funding cuts, outright repeal, and/or other tactics that increase costs or impact coverage.
  • Protect the ACA’s no-cost preventive services provision.
  • Extend ARPA enhanced tax credits so that Americans are not priced out of health insurance coverage in 2026.
  • Protect Medicaid from threats, including block grants, work requirements, denying retroactive eligibility, premium and cost-sharing hikes, and reducing consumer benefits.

Inflation Reduction Act and Prescription Drug Costs

  • Protect Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies
  • Protect the $35 insulin price cap for seniors
  • Protect the $2,000 out-of-pocket prescription drug cost caps

Site Neutral Payments

  • Establish site neutral payments to protect patients from being charged more for the same care based solely on where they receive the care.
  • Establish price transparency measures to lower costs for patients.

Reproductive Rights

  • Ensure reproductive health care decisions remain between the patient and their doctors, because politicians are never more qualified to make decisions about a person’s health care decisions.
  • Restore the right to abortion nationwide, and reject a national abortion ban.
  • Protect access to other reproductive health care services, including birth control and IVF.
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