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John, can I
share a quick story with you?

Back when I was a California state senator — before the Affordable Care
Act — patients were even more subject to the whims of their insurance
companies.

The insurance companies could deny the medical care that patients needed,
leaving them to decide whether to assume astronomical health care costs
themselves or forgo the care their doctors had deemed medically necessary.

During this time, I had a conversation with a woman whose husband had been
diagnosed with cancer. Although the couple was aware of a treatment that
was showing promise in curing his specific cancer, their health insurance
company was unwilling to cover the treatment and would only offer
palliative care. The insurance company felt that the treatment was not
medically necessary, a conclusion that is far easier to reach when you are
not the one dying. It took an intervention by my office to convince the
HMO otherwise and get him the life-saving care he needed.

We had to put a stop to this practice. So I authored a California patient
bill of rights to provide patients recourse when their health insurers
denied them the care they needed.

That bill passed the state legislature and was signed into law. It’s still
the law today.

In the time since, I’ve worked to secure millions in federal funding to
improve and expand health care across my district — from telehealth
services to mental health, to upgraded facilities, and investments for
first responder services assisting with mental health and substance abuse
care.

I worked to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act to cap the cost of
expensive prescription drugs to $35 per month for seniors on Medicare.

But there’s still work to do. We need to expand Medi-Cal to cover
low-income children and families, expecting mothers, and people with
disabilities to provide free or low-cost quality health care.

We have a maternal mortality crisis in this country that’s been
exacerbated by the Dobbs decision striking down Roe v. Wade and draconian
abortion bans at the state level.

We need to codify Roe. Protect abortion access. Ensure access to
contraception and reproductive health care. And ultimately, we need to
pass universal health care.

[ [link removed] ]If you’re ready to continue the fight with me until every single
American is covered with quality, affordable health insurance, add your
name to my petition as a citizen co-sponsor of the Medicare for All Act.

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From the patient bill of rights we passed all those years ago, to the
Affordable Care Act, to the Inflation Reduction Act, and our current fight
for universal health care, this has been central to my service.

I won’t give up until everyone in this country, no matter what their
income, can visit a doctor and receive the medical care they need when
they need it.

That’s what I’m fighting for.

— Adam

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