HEALTHCARE

noun | health·care | efforts to maintain or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being

The status quo is unacceptable. North Carolina deserves a representative who will deliver accessible and affordable health care for every citizen. This isn’t rocket science. If so many other countries can figure it out, then so can we.

↳ One in four patients report having difficulty affording the medications they need.
↳ North Carolina is one of only 12 states that have failed to expand Medicaid, denying more than 500,000 North Carolinians access to affordable and potentially life-saving care.
↳ 27 million people in the United States still do not have health insurance, including over 1,000,000 in North Carolina.
↳ 26 North Carolina counties don’t have a single OBGYN, and too many women are going without the prenatal and postnatal care they need.
↳ The United States is the only industrialized county to have an increasing maternal mortality rate.

STAND UP TO GREED AND LOWER THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

└ Shorten the patent life of prescription drugs.
└ Enforce antitrust laws with pharmaceutical companies.
└ Authorize the federal government to negotiate with drug companies to bring down prices.
└ Expand access to generic drugs that are more affordable
└ Crack down on companies monopolizing the pharmaceutical markets
└ Allow North Carolinians to buy safe and more affordable prescription drugs from Canada.
└ Fight for historic transparency of the negotiations made between drug manufacturers and medication importers to the U.S.
└ Empower trade advisory committees to influence the pricing of drugs.
Invest in rehabilitative treatment for those affected by drug addiction.

ALLOW EVERYONE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE INSURANCE

└ Defend pre-existing conditions protections currently in place under the Affordable Care Act.
└ Protect, improve, and build upon the Affordable Care Act.
└ Support guaranteed coverage of preventive care services to every American, including preventative coverage such as yearly check-ups, dental, and eye care.

PROTECT AND STRENGTHEN MEDICARE

└ Stand up to Washington politicians and oppose cuts to Medicare.
└ Support comprehensive coverage, including dental, vision, prescription drugs, and hearing aids.
└ Strengthen Medicare so that every citizen of the United States has guaranteed access to health care.

CREATE AND EXPAND RURAL HEALTH CARE ACCESS

└ Introduce legislation to expand the U.S. Public Health Service to recruit, train, and deploy nurses and doctors into underserved communities in North Carolina.
└ Fight to expand Medicaid in North Carolina.
└ Support a public health insurance option that increases reimbursement rates for rural hospitals.

HONOR OUR PROMISES TO VETERANS

└ Advocate for a reformed VA system here in North Carolina.
└ Support expansion of Medicaid to fully cover mental health related services and properly fund the related institutions.

GUARANTEE WOMEN’S HEALTH

The discourse around reproductive rights often couples the personal with the political. That is why Pam Genant stands firm in her belief that the government should not overstep its boundaries on a woman’s relationship with her doctor and the treatment that is needed. If elected, Pam would hold Congress accountable and draw attention toward issues we all can agree are pressing. Like the high infant mortality rate in the United States or the increasing maternal death rate. These are the issues on which we should be focusing our attention. In Congress, Pam will…

└ Expand the Public Health Service to train and encourage doctors to stay in North Carolina’s hardest-hit communities.
└ Ensure women cannot be charged more for their insurance just because of their gender.
└ Vote to boost women’s health programs and deliver federal dollars for clinics across North Carolina.
└ Fight to ensure that women have access to affordable, comprehensive health care services, like safe and legal abortion.
└ Ensure access to contraception at no cost.
└ Eliminate the Hyde Amendment which limits access to abortion services for millions of women enrolled in Medicaid and other federal programs.
└ Provide comprehensive, medically accurate sex education to our nation’s young people.