2024 AZ Senate race: on Health Care

Ruben Gallego: Supports Medicaid and Medicare expansion

Kyrsten Sinema: Shaped $35 insulin cap; lower prescription drug cost

Sinema helped shape the final legislation. Her critics say she prevented it from providing more help to more people more quickly and some point to her financial support from the pharmaceutical industry as a likely reason why.

Gallego voted for the final measure and urged a more ambitious approach in the first place. His critics say that he had little impact in shaping the matter and supported a plan that would have made future drug development more difficult.

A Sinema spokesperson said, "Kyrsten delivered laws that make health care more affordable and accessible for Arizonans by personally negotiating policies capping the cost of insulin and lowering the cost of prescription drugs for seniors, while saving taxpayer dollars and protecting continued innovation."

Kyrsten Sinema: Supported $35 insulin cap; cut prescription drug cost

Sinema helped shape the final legislation. Her critics say she prevented it from providing more help to more people more quickly and some point to her financial support from the pharmaceutical industry as a likely reason why.

Gallego voted for the final measure and urged a more ambitious approach in the first place. His critics say that he had little impact in shaping or pressing the matter and supported a plan that would have made future drug development more difficult.

"Ruben Gallego has been a longtime proponent of cutting the cost of prescription drugs for Arizonans, and he has the record to back it up," said a spokesperson. "The pharmaceutical lobby has enough people fighting for them in the Senate--Ruben will not be one of them."

Mark Lamb: Calls vaccine mandates garbage, spoke at anti-vax rally

When the coronavirus pandemic hit, he publicly resisted Arizona's mask mandates and stay-at-home orders -- before catching Covid himself last year, which he discovered when he was denied entry to the White House for a meeting with Trump.