Trump's executive order on prescription drug pricing is a performative gesture that will not effectively lower costs.

“It's a way for him to claim he's doing something before the courts can shut him down.”

Republican proposals to implement work requirements for Medicaid are merely a bureaucratic method to reduce health insurance access for vulnerable populations to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

“This is a bill to use paperwork to take away healthcare from millions of people who are eligible to receive it so that Donald Trump and his friends can get a tax cut.”

Government health insurance programs are vital for improving the quality of life for families who cannot afford private care.

“So because of that, my mother applied for access and I was an access kid and I will tell you that without that program, I don't think I would have been able to go on and serve my country for 20 years honorably and I probably wouldn't be standing in front of you here today. So healthc care is importa”

A Medicare for All system should be implemented to guarantee universal health coverage by removing the profit-driven insurance industry.

“I believe deeply in Medicare for all. I literally wrote the book on Medicare for all. How we would achieve guaranteed health care for everybody from the moment they are born to the moment that they get a job.”

He believes the state must protect access to health care and views funding for cancer research as essential.

“It has to be the dumbest thing in the world to cancel cancer research. We should not be killing cancer research right now, we should be killing cancer.”