When you’re sick, you should be able to see a doctor without breaking the bank. While Washington politicians fight to rip away health insurance from working families, I’ll keep pushing back and fighting to not only protect, but expand access to quality health care.

Track Record

• Codified the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act in state law, ensuring Michiganders cannot be denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition, can stay on their parents’ insurance until the age of 26, and more.

• Championed legislation to protect Michiganders’ reproductive health by repealing the state’s archaic 1931 abortion ban, dismantling medically unnecessary regulations on reproductive care, and eliminating  barriers to fertility treatments such as IVF.

• Fought against federal budget cuts to Medicaid and secured state funding to save the program and ensure health care remains accessible and affordable in Michigan.

• Expanded access to mental health and substance use disorders treatment by requiring insurers to cover those services as they do with any other medical treatment.

• Introduced bipartisan package of evidence-based policies designed to expand access to support services for substance use disorder, reduce the risk of overdoses, and improve both short- and long-term treatment outcomes.

• Passed legislation to rein in the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs and bring much needed accountability, oversight, and transparency to the prescription drug industry.

• Sponsored legislation to establish a state-based health insurance exchange that would provide the state with greater flexibility to meet the health care needs of Michiganders.