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Health care
Candidate positionI believe that if you live in America you have a right to quality healthcare.
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I believe that if you live in America you have a right to quality healthcare.
Health care
Candidate positionDebbie knows hardworking families are facing a real affordability crisis. She is fighting to ensure your taxpayer dollars are being used to lower the high cost of living, fix the broken healthcare system, and clean up corruption.
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Debbie knows hardworking families are facing a real affordability crisis. She is fighting to ensure your taxpayer dollars are being used to lower the high cost of living, fix the broken healthcare system, and clean up corruption.
Health care
Candidate positionDebbie firmly believes you should be able to go to the doctor when you need to go to the doctor and get the medicine and treatment you need. When you have been prescribed life-saving drugs, you shouldn’t have to ration doses just to afford them. That’s why Debbie is a Co-Chair of the Medicare for All Caucus and a House lead of the Medicare for All Act. She is fighting to protect pre-existing condition protections gained through the Affordable Care Act, and is working to pass multiple pieces of legislation with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to lower the costs of prescription drugs, speed up access to treatments, and ensure there is a strong healthcare workforce ready to provide the critical services patients rely on in every community.
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Debbie firmly believes you should be able to go to the doctor when you need to go to the doctor and get the medicine and treatment you need. When you have been prescribed life-saving drugs, you shouldn’t have to ration doses just to afford them. That’s why Debbie is a Co-Chair of the Medicare for All Caucus and a House lead of the Medicare for All Act. She is fighting to protect pre-existing condition protections gained through the Affordable Care Act, and is working to pass multiple pieces of legislation with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to lower the costs of prescription drugs, speed up access to treatments, and ensure there is a strong healthcare workforce ready to provide the critical services patients rely on in every community.
Labor and unions
Candidate positionDebbie is fighting to keep good-paying jobs in the United States by supporting our domestic manufacturing industry, including the automotive industry in Southeast Michigan. For too long, poor trade deals, outsourcing, and the decline of unionization have hollowed out the industrial base. Rebuilding American manufacturing and protecting workers will always be one of her top priorities. This includes by also renegotiating the USMCA, and ensuring tariffs are implemented in a way that helps–and not harms–our domestic industries. She’s also committed to ensuring that emerging companies and entrepreneurs in the region have the opportunities and resources needed to explore innovative business ideas and position themselves for future success.
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Debbie is fighting to keep good-paying jobs in the United States by supporting our domestic manufacturing industry, including the automotive industry in Southeast Michigan. For too long, poor trade deals, outsourcing, and the decline of unionization have hollowed out the industrial base. Rebuilding American manufacturing and protecting workers will always be one of her top priorities. This includes by also renegotiating the USMCA, and ensuring tariffs are implemented in a way that helps–and not harms–our domestic industries. She’s also committed to ensuring that emerging companies and entrepreneurs in the region have the opportunities and resources needed to explore innovative business ideas and position themselves for future success.
Immigration enforcement
Candidate positionDebbie is fighting to make serious reforms that ensure ICE follows the same rules as other law enforcement agencies, like no masks, mandatory body cameras, and requiring judicial warrants. Debbie has also long been a strong advocate for comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. She co-sponsored the Keep Families Together Act and the Family Reunification Act.
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Debbie is fighting to make serious reforms that ensure ICE follows the same rules as other law enforcement agencies, like no masks, mandatory body cameras, and requiring judicial warrants. Debbie has also long been a strong advocate for comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. She co-sponsored the Keep Families Together Act and the Family Reunification Act.
Education
Candidate positionDebbie strongly believes that an investment in education is an investment in our future. She is proud to support our public schools, public universities, and teachers, and she is committed to promoting educational opportunities from Pre-K to higher education and older adults.
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Debbie strongly believes that an investment in education is an investment in our future. She is proud to support our public schools, public universities, and teachers, and she is committed to promoting educational opportunities from Pre-K to higher education and older adults.
Social Security
Candidate positionHundreds of thousands of Michiganders rely on Social Security and Medicare. These men and women worked hard for decades and paid their fair share to support these vital programs. Debbis is a co-sponsor of the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill that increases Social Security’s vital benefits while making the system financially strong throughout the 21st century.
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Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders rely on Social Security and Medicare. These men and women worked hard for decades and paid their fair share to support these vital programs. Debbis is a co-sponsor of the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill that increases Social Security’s vital benefits while making the system financially strong throughout the 21st century.
Seniors and long-term care
Candidate positionDebbie believes all seniors should be able to live and age with dignity. She has championed several efforts to expand access to home- and community-based services to help seniors and individuals living with disabilities access care in the comfort and safety of their own homes. As the largest payor of long term care in America, she is also fighting back against the draconian Medicaid cuts made through the Big Ugly Bill, which are putting long term care further out of reach for seniors across the country.
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Debbie believes all seniors should be able to live and age with dignity. She has championed several efforts to expand access to home- and community-based services to help seniors and individuals living with disabilities access care in the comfort and safety of their own homes. As the largest payor of long term care in America, she is also fighting back against the draconian Medicaid cuts made through the Big Ugly Bill, which are putting long term care further out of reach for seniors across the country.
Health care
Candidate positionWe must ensure that our nation’s veterans receive the services they have earned when they get home — from healthcare, including mental healthcare, to education and training so they can find civilian jobs, to fighting the scourge of homelessness that hits our veteran community so hard. This is our responsibility.
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We must ensure that our nation’s veterans receive the services they have earned when they get home — from healthcare, including mental healthcare, to education and training so they can find civilian jobs, to fighting the scourge of homelessness that hits our veteran community so hard. This is our responsibility.
Civil rights
Candidate positionEveryone deserves the same rights and protections under the law regardless of who they are or who they love. Discrimination in housing, employment, and other facets of American life is immoral and must be stopped.
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Everyone deserves the same rights and protections under the law regardless of who they are or who they love. Discrimination in housing, employment, and other facets of American life is immoral and must be stopped.