CARE CANDIDATES
The Committee to Protect Health Care approves 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 50,000 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.
2026 CARE CANDIDATES:
OUR HEALTH CARE PRIORITIES:
Health Insurance Coverage and Costs
- Establish a pathway to universal health care so that every American has the care they need to thrive.
- Oppose any efforts to weaken, defund, or dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and support restoring enhanced premium tax credits to restore millions of Americans’ ability to afford coverage.
- Restore and protect full Medicaid funding to ensure coverage for those who need it, including people with chronic illness, the elderly, caregivers, mothers and babies, and working families.
Reproductive Freedom
- Restore nationwide protections for abortion access in the wake of the Dobbs decision.
- Oppose ideological interference in the FDA’s regulation of medication abortion, and support federal protections for mifepristone against legislative and administrative attacks.
Prescription Drug Costs and Big Pharma Accountability
- Defend Medicare’s drug price negotiation authority from repeal or weakening, and work to close pharmaceutical industry carve-outs that undermine savings for patients.
- Establish additional oversight to hold pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, and other supply chain actors accountable for price gouging patients.
Consolidation, Competition, and Costs
- Address hospital consolidation, curb anti-competitive practices in health care markets, and reduce the structural drivers of rising health care costs.
- Establish “same service, same price” site-neutral payment policies that ensure patients are not charged more for the same care based solely on a facility’s ownership.
Public Health, Scientific Integrity, and Oversight
- Ensure federal health agencies operate based on scientific evidence and stop political interference in public health decision-making.
- Protect hospitals, clinics, and medical facilities as sensitive spaces, shielding them from immigration enforcement actions that deter patients from seeking care.
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Reproductive Freedom
- Protect the right to access reproductive health care by opposing any new restrictions on abortion access in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Ensure all Pennsylvanians have access to contraception and in vitro fertilization, free from political interference.
- Support a statewide constitutional amendment referendum enshrining personal reproductive liberty for all Pennsylvanians.
Health Care Coverage
- Defend Pennsylvania’s Medicaid enrollees by committing to solutions that protect coverage and access to care in the face of federal funding cuts.
- Codify Affordable Care Act consumer protections into state law to protect against federal repeal, including coverage for pre-existing conditions, no-cost preventive care, and dependent coverage through age 26.
Health Care Consolidation and Costs
- Stop consolidation of health care facilities and services by private equity and large out-of-state hospital conglomerates, a practice raising patients’ costs and reducing access to care.
Tackling Prescription Drug Costs
- Empower the state to review Pennsylvanians’ drug costs, increase Big Pharma price transparency, and set cost limits on unaffordable medications.
- Acknowledge the burden high prescription drug costs place on Pennsylvania patients and families, and commit to solutions that increase affordability and access.
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Prescription Drug Costs and Access
- Support the creation of a Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board with the authority to analyze drug pricing, hold public meetings, and set upper payment limits on unaffordable prescription drugs.
- Acknowledge the burden high prescription drug costs place on Virginia patients and families, and commit to solutions that increase affordability and access.
Reproductive Rights
- Protect the right to access reproductive health care by supporting a constitutional amendment enshrining reproductive rights for Virginians.
- Ensure all Virginians have the right to access contraception.
Health Care Costs and Coverage
- Defend Virginia’s Medicaid enrollees by supporting legislative safeguards that prevent federal spending cuts from stripping away health care from working families.
- Promote efforts to strengthen and expand health care access while reducing costs across the Commonwealth.
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