I grew up in a house where medicine wasn't just a career for a family physician. It was my dad's calling to make a difference, to help people, a true vocation. He would regularly visit with patients in our living room late at night who couldn't afford to go to the clinic.
His primary care focused on Medicaid and Medicare recipients, substance abuse victims, disabled Veterans, and working-class families with children with behavior issues.
In his favorite hoodies, he would administer vaccines for players on my hockey team for free because he knew a healthy team is a winning team. The same applies to his constituency. Citizens cannot thrive without preventative care.
The healthcare system is failing.
That's one of my dad's core messages for Congress. Outrageously high medical bills, insurance disputes, a lack of mental health services, or citizens avoiding care altogether because of unaffordability and inaccessibility.
Before we moved to the rural heartland, Dad got his moniker "Dr. Bob" from Native children while he was working at a clinic in Navajo Nation, serving an impoverished and disadvantaged community. It's where I learned cultural competency.
Dr. Bob grew up in a split working-class home with five siblings. My grandfather was a union railroad worker, and my grandmother was a union nurse. My dad considers himself lucky, working his way up from community college to medical school, and he wants to provide similar opportunities for all Americans.
He's running for Congress to make the future brighter for his grandchildren and the next generation. For the same reasons he was a social worker at a Veterans hospital, served in the State Department, and became a public health director during COVID, his motivation to get to DC is all from a sense of duty to the country.
With your help, my dad is committed to healing policy. He wants to alleviate the pain of struggling rural communities, and his biggest initiative is universal healthcare.
He needs you in his corner to lead in Congress and create a publicly financed non-profit national health insurance program that fully covers medical costs for all Americans — including palliative and mental healthcare.
Can you chip in for Bob Lorinser today? His opponent is MAGA Republican in Northern Michigan. Against dark money and Super PACs, we're creating a grassroots movement in the Midwest that will ignite and inspire quality Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
