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Healthcare for all

Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege. A society which forces workers to choose between going to the doctor or keeping the lights on at home has experienced a moral failure. Together, we will continue to fight for the passage of universal, single-payer healthcare.

The record

In our first term, we protected and strengthened the Oregon Health Plan (OHP), our state’s publicly-funded health insurance program. And I am proud that we protected and expanded healthcare for marginalized communities:

  • We funded and strengthened OHP.
  • We won protections for clinics against corporate and private-equity control.
  • We stopped drug companies from withholding discount funds from public providers.
  • We won the right for mobile pharmacies to provide treatment in rural and underserved communities.
  • We required insurance companies to cover preventative treatment and vaccines.
  • We expanded public mental health and addiction treatment.
  • We won Medicaid payments for reproductive health providers being denied federal funds.
  • We stopped hospital executives from using medical debt to tank credit scores.
  • We won privacy protections for traveling patients seeking reproductive health care.
  • We won protections for our trans neighbors seeking gender-affirming care.

The plan

In our second term, we will expand on our fight for universal healthcare by centering the following priorities:

  • We will win a single-payer, Universal Health Plan (UHP) in the State of Oregon.
  • We will ensure that Oregon’s UHP covers reproductive and gender-affirming care.
  • We will ensure that Oregon’s UHP covers quality mental health services.