1. Move Toward a Single-Payer Health Care System

• Support a transition to a universal, single-payer system that guarantees comprehensive coverage for every American.
  
  

• End the inefficiency of employer-based coverage that ties health care to jobs and leaves rural workers, seasonal workers, and small businesses at risk.
  
  

• Reduce administrative waste, duplication, and billing complexity that currently drains billions from patient care.

During the transition:

2. Bust Health Care Monopolies & Vertical Integration

• Break up vertically integrated health care corporations that control insurance, hospitals, pharmacies, drug distribution, and physician practices under one corporate umbrella.
  
  

• Enforce antitrust laws to stop consolidation that drives up prices, limits patient choice, and shuts down rural hospitals and independent clinics.
  
  

• Ban private equity and corporate practices that extract profits at every step of the health care process while cutting staff and services.

3. Protect and Expand Coverage

• Defend Medicaid and Medicare against cuts, privatization, or voucher schemes.
  
  

• Expand eligibility and benefits so working families, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities are not forced to choose between care and basic necessities.
  
  

• Oppose policies that strip coverage through work requirements, bureaucratic barriers designed to push people off coverage, or funding caps.
  

4. Lower Costs for Patients

• Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices across all medications.
  
  

• Cap out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions, including insulin and life-saving medications.
  
  

• End surprise billing and predatory medical debt practices.
  

5. Fix Rural Health Care Access

• Invest in rural hospitals, clinics, and emergency services to prevent closures across Eastern and Southern Oregon.
  
  

• Expand telehealth permanently, with broadband investment so rural patients can actually use it.
  
  

• Support mobile clinics and community health centers to reach remote communities.
  

6. Strengthen the Health Care Workforce

• Increase pay, loan forgiveness, and retention incentives for nurses, EMTs, mental health providers, and rural physicians.
  
  

• Protect collective bargaining rights for health care workers and address unsafe staffing ratios that endanger patients and workers alike.
  
  

• Address burnout and unsafe staffing ratios that put both workers and patients at risk.
  

7. Mental Health & Addiction Care

• Treat mental health and substance use care as essential health care, not optional add-ons.
  
  

• Expand crisis response teams and community-based treatment, especially in rural counties.
  
  

• Prioritize prevention, harm reduction, and long-term recovery over incarceration.
  

8. Reproductive & Preventive Care

• Defend full access to reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion care..
  
  

• Protect preventive services like cancer screenings, prenatal care, and well-woman exams, without cost barriers.
  

9. Environmental Health Is Public Health

• Hold polluters accountable when contaminated water, wildfire smoke, or toxic exposure harms community health.
  
  

• Protect private wells and drinking water from corporate and industrial contamination.
  
  

• Invest in public health infrastructure to respond to climate-driven health threats.

Core Contrast: My Approach vs. Cliff Bentz

Rule of Law vs. Power Without Accountability

• Bentz consistently aligns with efforts that erode checks and balances, shield executive abuse, and weaken congressional oversight.
  
  

• I believe no one is above the law—not presidents, not corporations, not members of Congress.
  

Care Over Corporate Profit

• Bentz votes to protect corporate consolidation in health care, insurance, and pharmaceuticals—driving higher costs and fewer rural providers.
  
  

• I support moving toward a single-payer system and breaking up vertically integrated health care monopolies that profit at every step while patients and providers lose.
  

Rural Oregon as People, Not Talking Points

• Bentz uses rural Oregon rhetorically while voting for policies that close rural hospitals, underfund Medicaid, and cut public health protections.
  
  

• I start with access, workforce retention, and public health infrastructure, because rural health care is about survival, not ideology.
  

Independence vs. Donor Capture

• Bentz accepts money from industries he is supposed to regulate.
  

I run a people-powered campaign and am accountable to voters—not corporate PACs, not special interests.