PROTECTING OUR CARE

Greg stanton doesn’t take a dime from big pharma. and he never will.

Greg Stanton has already helped prove a basic point: health care costs come down when Congress is willing to take on the industries making them unaffordable.

For years, drug companies had the power to charge seniors whatever the market would bear because Medicare was blocked from negotiating. Stanton helped change that. The Inflation Reduction Act gave Medicare real bargaining power, capped insulin at $35 a month for seniors, and put a hard limit on what seniors pay out of pocket for prescriptions. That is the model he wants to build on: stop letting drug companies, PBMs, and insurance companies write the rules, protect the coverage Arizona families rely on, and lower the cost of care in ways people can actually feel.

Greg believes hard work should give Arizona families the freedom to build a decent life, and health care is at the center of whether that promise holds up. When premiums rise, prescriptions cost too much, or child care is out of reach, families do not just lose money. They lose choices.

Greg is working to protect the health coverage Arizona families already count on.

He supports extending ACA tax credits so families are not hit with higher premiums, and he will keep defending Medicare and Medicaid from cuts. He also supports cracking down on PBMs and drug companies when they use the system to keep prices high.

He believes Arizona’s care economy deserves the same urgency. Families cannot get ahead if child care costs too much, if paid leave is unavailable, or if seniors and people with disabilities cannot get care where they live. Greg is pushing to lower child care costs, support providers, pay care workers fairly, and expand home and community-based care because care is what makes work possible.

Reproductive freedom is part of the same fight. Greg believes women cannot have full economic freedom if politicians control their health care decisions. He will keep fighting to restore abortion rights, protect contraception and medication abortion, and keep medical decisions between patients and their doctors.

Greg position is clear: lower costs, protect coverage, take on the companies abusing the system, and build a health care economy that supports work, family, and freedom in Arizona.

Greg’s REcord

• Stood up to Big Pharma and passed the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, which authorized Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, capped insulin at $35 a month for Medicare patients and capped annual Part D out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $2,000.

• Forced a House vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits by signing the discharge petition after Speaker Johnson refused to bring up a clean bill, then voted for the three-year extension to stop premium spikes for Arizona families, small business owners and marketplace enrollees.

• Voted against the Trump budget bill that slashed Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy, threatening coverage for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans and putting hospitals across the state at risk.

• Helped introduce The Healthy Families Act, to guarantee workers the ability to earn paid sick time to care for themselves, take a child or family member to the doctor, get preventive care, or deal with the health and safety impacts of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.

• Helped introduce the Women’s Health Protection Act, to restore federal abortion rights and stop politicians from imposing medically unnecessary restrictions on reproductive health care.

• Introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen Native health care by elevating the Indian Health Service Director to Assistant Secretary for Indian Health at HHS.

• Secured House passage of two bipartisan amendments to improve Native veteran health care, directing more support toward rural mobile clinics, clinical staffing and culturally competent VA care

• Greg also cosponsored or help introduce several important bills in the 119th Congress, including:

  • The Health Care Affordability Act, to make enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits permanent so families who buy insurance on the marketplace are not hit with higher monthly premiums year after year.

  • The Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, to crack down on Medicare Advantage prior authorization delays and stop insurance companies from making seniors wait for care their doctors already prescribed.

  • The Women’s Health Protection Act, the Right to Contraception Act and the Access to Family Building Act, to protect abortion rights, birth control and IVF from political attacks.

  • The Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Act, to allow Medicare coverage of FDA-approved blood-based cancer screening tests that can help detect more cancers earlier.

  • The Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act, to eliminate Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance waiting periods for eligible patients with metastatic breast cancer.

  • The Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act, to help bring more doctors into medically underserved communities.

  • The Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act, to fund mental health care, peer support and burnout prevention for doctors, nurses and frontline health care workers.

  • The PHARA Act, to protect NIH-funded medical research from politically driven cuts and grant cancellations.