Matt Brown on Health Care Democratic challenger, secretary of state

For Medicare for All, protect reproductive freedom

RI Political Cooperative Policy Platform:
• Healthcare for All
• Enact Medicare-for-All style universal healthcare
• Ensure every RI resident has mental, dental, hearing, and vision care
• Take on big pharma to make prescription drugs affordable
• Protect reproductive freedom

Vaccine requirement to enter public spaces, mask mandate

RI Political Cooperative Policy Platform:
• Pandemic Protection for All
• Vaccine requirement to enter public spaces including restaurants, bars, and stadiums (except for people with valid medical or religious reasons not to get vaccinated)
• Implement a statewide mask mandate in public spaces
• Expand paid sick leave

Launched RIMeds to let seniors reimport drugs from Canada

So Matt started a website called RIRx and launched RIMeds - a program allowing Rhode Islanders to purchase safe, affordable prescription drugs from Canada where they cost up to 60% less. The Bush administration threatened to send in the FDA to stop him - but Matt didn’t back down. To date, people have visited the website over 400,000 times. Now Matt is traveling all over Rhode Island to show seniors how to use the RIMeds program so they can afford the prescription drugs they need to stay healthy.

Lower health costs by watch-dogging big insurance companies

You can imagine that the big insurance companies and their lobbyists fought this with everything they had. But Matt didn’t back down - and he won. Today, Rhode Island’s Health Insurance Commissioner oversees the insurance companies and works to keep health care costs down for Rhode Islanders.