California is home to some of the best doctors and hospitals in the nation, yet for too many in our community, healthcare costs are too high and access to care inaccessible. In the Senate, I would:

• Reduce burdens to practice: California has some of the nation’s strictest licensing requirements on nurses, therapists, and doctors. We are one of only a handful of states that do not allow out-of-state care providers to practice here. We should be making it easier, not more difficult, to treat patients here in California.
• Protect medical tort reform: California needs to protect the caps on medical malpractice lawsuits to lower insurance rates for care providers and reduce costs passed onto consumers.
• Promote health savings accounts: Californians should be able to save money to pay for their future healthcare expenses, tax free. Everyone should invest in their future health, and the state should be a partner in that process.
• Oppose state controlled medicine: the DMV can barely function and the EDD can’t deliver unemployment checks without losing billions to fraud. Under no circumstances should we place the State of California in total control of our healthcare. Thus, I oppose single-payer and Medicare for all systems that would place bureaucrats in charge of our health.