Health Care
When you or a loved one is sick, navigating the American health care system adds stress to an already challenging time. We can make health care more accessible, high quality, and affordable for all, by focusing on reducing costs, expanding coverage, and prioritizing preventive and comprehensive care for individuals and communities. This starts with:
- Expanding Affordable Care Act (ACA) Provisions. The ACA gave millions of Americans access to the health care they need. By strengthening and expanding the Affordable Care Act, including increasing subsidies, expanding Medicaid in all states, and creating a public option to increase access and affordability, we can help even more people get and stay healthy.
- Reducing Prescription Drug Costs. We have to lower prescription drug prices and stop the corporate greed of manufacturers. The Biden administration took a meaningful step forward through Medicare price negotiations on some of the most popular drugs — but we can do more. By expanding that list of drugs, importing cheaper drugs from abroad, and increasing transparency in pharmaceutical pricing, we’ll make a huge impact for families.
- Getting service costs under control. I will support measures to cap out-of-pocket expenses for health care services, including deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance; push for increased transparency in health care pricing by requiring hospitals and providers to disclose costs upfront to patients, enabling informed decision-making and cost comparison.
- Increasing access for rural and underserved Communities. We must address health care disparities in rural and underserved areas and ensure access to quality services, facilities, and providers. We can achieve this by allocating resources, creating incentives, and expanding telehealth services.
- Treating mental health and behavior health the same way we address physical health. We must increase funding and access to mental health and behavioral health care services, ensuring parity between physical and mental health coverage.
- Creating a single payer health insurance system. Eddy believes health care should be a right for all not just a privilege for those who can afford it. Growing up, Eddy's family lacked insurance — their health care was the emergency room. And from losing a sister to opioid addiction, Eddy understands that we can't afford to let more families fall through the cracks. That’s why in Congress he’ll work to pass Medicare-For-All to ensure that nobody else in America ever has to go without care simply because they cannot afford it.