Healthcare

The doomsday that Americans fear in the 21st century isn't being vaporized by a nuclear bomb. It's the doomsday diagnosis of cancer, it's medical debt, it's housing payments or loan payments, it's grocery bills and heating bills.

While American families struggle with skyrocketing healthcare costs and grocery bills, Republicans are gearing up to fork over another $150 billion to the military-industrial complex.

Compared to other developed countries, the United States has among the worst health care outcomes. That is especially true for communities of color, who confront systemic barriers, biases and neglect when seeking necessary, life-saving…

Taking from the pot. Your health and access to care is up for negotiation? This should frighten and outrage people.

We believe the ad risks misleading patients by omitting any safety or side effect information.

An unprecedented rise in the need for behavioral health support.

The U.S. spends 2x more per capita on healthcare than any other nation. Yet 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, 68,000 die because they can't afford a doctor, and we pay the highest prices in the world for Rx drugs. Healthcare is a…

A baby born during a botched abortion deserved the same level of medical care that a child born in any other setting would receive.

I have talked with women around our country... they are being denied IVF treatments.

Under the law I signed, Medicare can negotiate lower prices for another 15 drugs next year, 15 the following, and 20 after that until every drug is covered.

Medicare represents more than 65 million people, and now Medicare can use that power to go toe to toe with big pharma and negotiate lower drug prices.

For years, big pharma has often inflated the price of lifesaving medications, often charging many times what it would cost to make just to increase their profits.

The same law we wrote means starting in January of this year, every senior in the United States of America, no matter what their cost of drugs, will never have to spend more than $2,000 a year for all drugs.

Too many Americans can’t afford the drugs they badly need for life and death.

In the United States of America, no senior should have to choose between either filling their prescription or paying their rent.

I believe that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege, in America.

We’re going to fight to make sure everyone qualifies for that $2,000 cap on drug costs.

This becomes really personal. And for me, this idea about the healthcare decisions we make and the choices about our family, that’s your family.