2022 CA Senate race: on Health Care


Alex Padilla: 2006: Fought for universal health care

In 2006, Alex was elected to the State Senate. He fought for universal health care, stopping tobacco sales to minors, fighting diabetes and obesity, expanding patient protections and improving food safety.
Source: 2022 California Senate campaign website Alex-Padilla.com Dec 23, 2020

Alex Padilla: We've got to better support our health care infrastructure

I'm going to be quickly advocating for not just additional direct assistance to families, direct assistance to state and local governments, including school districts but not excluding--or exclusive to school districts. We've got to better support our health care infrastructure. Again, you see doctors, nurses, hospitals, community clinics beyond capacity they were built for. We have a lot more support to do to weather the pandemic and then begin to rebuild the economy.
Source: Washington Post on 2022 California Senate race Mar 23, 2021

Mark Meuser: COVID isolation policy caused poor job market & inflation

[Letters posted on Twitter]: Dear Gavin,

I appreciate your concern for Californians struggling to make ends meet with record inflation, gas prices, and a poor job market (which you caused with your COVID policies).

But government spending is what has caused record inflation in the first place.

Your 'solution' will only make the problem worse. Your 'solution' doesn't get to the causes of inflation.

When I am elected to the U.S. Senate, I will start working on the root causes right away. I will stop the reckless government spending.

Dear Dr. Fauci and Gavin Newsom,

Your policies during #covid where people were isolated not because of health status but based on your determination of how essential their occupation was not only violated their Due Process rights but it also contradicted the science.

Follow the science should not be a sound bite, it should actually be the guiding principle of a governor and public health official.

Source: 2022 California Senate campaign website MarkMeuser.com Jun 12, 2022

Mark Meuser: Won't comment on publicly was his vaccination status

One thing Meuser wouldn't comment on publicly was his vaccination status. "That is something that is between me and my doctor and nobody else's business," he said.
Source: KPIX-5 News on 2022 California Senate race Jun 3, 2022

Xavier Becerra: 133M people with pre-existing conditions rely on ObamaCare

Open enrollment for Affordable Care Act's health insurance will continue despite the federal judge's ruling that the law is unconstitutional and must be "invalidated in whole." U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, a federal judge in Texas appointed by President George W. Bush, ruled that last year's tax cut bill knocked the constitutional foundation from under ObamaCare by eliminating a penalty for not having coverage. The rest of the law cannot be separated from that provision and is therefore invalid, he wrote.

Congress is unlikely to act while the case remains in the courts. Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general, vowed to appeal the decision. "Today's ruling is an assault on 133 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, on the 20 million Americans who rely on the A.C.A.'s consumer protections for health care, on America's faithful progress toward affordable health care for all Americans," Becerra said in a statement, obtained by The New York Times.

Source: Fox News on 2022 California Senate race Dec 15, 2018

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Candidates and political leaders on Health Care:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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