At a January debate, Iowa's Republican nominee for governor said he'd pull all COVID shots off the market in Iowa and end all childhood vaccine requirements for school enrollment. 'We cannot trust the medical establishment in Iowa anymore.'
"This is against the law, and the law needs to be enforced." Hilton calls California's Housing First strategy a "complete disaster" and would redirect state funding to sober housing — in a state with nearly a quarter of America's homeless population.
The Fair Care Act says it will cover more people and protect preexisting conditions. Westerman voted to repeal Obamacare, voted for the budget bill that, with the lapse of enhanced ACA tax credits, is projected to leave 40,000 more people in his district uninsured by 2034, and voted for a 'lower premiums' bill that lowers nothing.
Three rural hospital rescue bills in five months, from the senator who voted for the law taking billions out of rural health care. Twenty-four Mississippi rural hospitals are now rated vulnerable to closure.
SB 217 would have written a right to IVF into Nevada law. It passed the state Senate 15-5 with Republican votes. Lombardo killed it, calling the insurance mandate 'fiscally impossible' — while saying he supports making IVF more accessible.
In 2021 San Diego County voted 3-2 to start a harm reduction program. Desmond voted no, saying giving out needles still had the appearance of promoting drug abuse. The CDC's own research says the opposite — participants are five times as likely to enter treatment.
Medicaid covers about 42% of New Mexicans — the highest rate in the country. Asked how he'd govern through Trump's cuts, the Republican nominee for governor said if it 'requires some scaling back, then we'll have to look at that.'
She ran South Carolina's Commission for the Blind and helped unwind subminimum wage for disabled workers. Two days into the Senate she voted against taking up a resolution to end a new Medicare prior-authorization program, and two weeks later against taking up one to undo a child care rollback.
Six Republicans crossed over to pass Oregon's Medicaid funding bill. Drazan wasn't one of them. Her objection wasn't to what the money does — it was to how many votes it needed.