High quality, affordable health care is a human right. We must ensure quality health care is available to everyone in this country regardless of income. That is why I am a member of the Medicare for All Caucus and a cosponsor of the Medicare for All Act of 2023, which would ensure that all Americans can access health care with no premiums, deductibles, co-pays, or surprise bills. It would also expand Medicare to encompass a wide range of services such as primary care, vision, dental, prescription drugs, mental health support, substance abuse treatment, long-term services and assistance, reproductive healthcare, and more. 

Price-gouging is an unacceptable practice that has prevented millions of Americans from accessing the care they need. Expanding on the progress Democrats have made through the Affordable Care Act and Inflation Reduction Act, we must continue reducing the cost of prescription drugs and capping the price of life-saving drugs, such as insulin, to ensure that people are not priced out of the care they need. All of this can be done while encouraging innovation through research and development of life-saving therapies and supporting the Bay Area’s leading-edge life sciences sector.

Reproductive Health Care
I unequivocally believe in a woman’s right to choose and will continue fighting against policies that restrict access to reproductive health care and endanger women’s health. I am a proud cosponsor of both the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would restore and protect access to abortion across the country, and the EACH Act, which would repeal the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment, supported by House Republicans, prohibits access to abortion care for those enrolled in Medicaid, Tricare, and other Federal government health care plans. I am also an original cosponsor of the Right to Contraception Act, which would enshrine an individual’s right to access contraception and protect healthcare providers’ right to provide contraception. 

Medical Research
Advancing medical research and maintaining the United States’ leadership in innovation is one of my major priorities. I am a member of the Diabetes Caucus, Rare Disease Caucus, Biomedical Research Caucus, Personalized Medicine Caucus, and the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus – all of which are bipartisan coalitions of members pushing for cures, therapeutics, and prevention of some of the most debilitating and deadly diseases.

In the FY24 Congressional Appropriations process, I led a bipartisan coalition of members to call for greater access to life-saving health screening technologies through additional funding for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). In the FY25 Appropriations process, I am fighting to fund other important public health programs, such as Health Care for the Homeless, the Minority AIDS Initiative, the Nursing Workforce Development program, and multiple cancer research programs including stomach, prostate, and pancreatic cancers.

I also cosponsored the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act, which would create a whole-of-government task force to find cures and prevention methods for Parkinson’s Disease, and the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, which would make historic investments in preventing maternal mortality, morbidity, and other perinatal health disparities in the United States.