Healthcare is a human right.

No one in Northern California should have to drive hours for emergency care, lose access to reproductive healthcare, or go broke because they got sick. But that’s exactly what happens when politicians abandon rural communities and let healthcare be treated like a business instead of a public good.

Here in California, I’ve stood up to Donald Trumo when he cut healthcare for working families and fought back: reopening shuttered hospitals, expanding rural birthing centers so expecting moms can have their baby in the town they call home, I’ve kept health centers open, expanded health insurance coverage to 92% all Californians, and successfully fought to expand thousands of additional mental health and addiction beds.

We went to the mat and are building out a rural healthcare workforce. I’ve secured the funds that’s expanded nursing programs in rural communities, we’re building more healthcare technician academies at local community colleges and we’re about to break ground on Northern California’s largest healthcare education job hub focused on graduating the next generation of healthcare and lab technicians and medical assiatnts.

When Donald Trump defunded Planned Parenthood, I helped lead the fight to keep all 100 of their California health centers open and I’ve successfully fought to enshrine the right to reproductive health and abortion for every woman in California.

Heathcare can’t just be for the wealthy few. That’s why I’ve worked day and night to move Medicare for All forward in California, to guarantee health coverage and mental health care – for everyone.

And I believe we have to go bigger: it’s time to pass Medicare for All.

That means guaranteed healthcare for every person in this country — full stop. No more insurance company greed, no more denying care for profit, no more tying your healthcare to your job, and no more bankrupting families over medical bills. We can and must build a system that puts patients before profits.