2018 WI Senate race: on Health Care

Leah Vukmir: Full repeal of ObamaCare, period

Tammy Baldwin (D): Support. "Take repeal off the table & work to improve." Ultimately prefers Medicare for All.

Leah Vukmir (R): Repeal. "Leah supports full repeal of ObamaCare. Period."

Tammy Baldwin: Take repeal off the table & work to improve ObamaCare

Tammy Baldwin (D): Support. "Take repeal off the table & work to improve." Ultimately prefers Medicare for All.

Leah Vukmir (R): Repeal. "Leah supports full repeal of ObamaCare. Period."

Leah Vukmir: Opposed requiring health insurers to cover oral chemotherapy

In Baldwin's newest ad, cancer survivor Kristin Jome-Robley of Manitowoc took Vukmir to task for voting against a bill that required health insurance companies to pay for oral chemotherapy. Jome-Robley said, "Leah Vukmir, you ought to be ashamed."

Vukmir defended her vote and said it was "absolutely ludicrous that Tammy Baldwin is going to lecture me, as a nurse, as somebody who understands health care in the way that Tammy Baldwin doesn't."

She said the ad was a way for Baldwin to attack her "as a way to distract from her own problems at the Tomah VA." Vukmir continued, "Make no mistake about it: Tammy Baldwin let our veterans down at the Tomah VA. To have sat on a report that a doctor was over-prescribing opioids, a veteran died and many others became addicted, to me, it's unconscionable."