Healthcare Plan

The United States is the only wealthy nation that treats healthcare as a privilege instead of a right, and working families are paying the price. Tens of millions of Americans remain uninsured or underinsured, premiums and deductibles climb every year, and lifesaving prescriptions cost a fraction of the price across the border. Since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions now depends on her zip code, and mental health and addiction services remain out of reach for the people who need them most. NJ-07 deserves a federal partner who will fight to enact Medicare for All, codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, take on the pharmaceutical industry to lower drug prices, expand mental health and addiction services, and stand up to the corporate interests that profit off patient suffering.

Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. Every other developed nation has figured this out, and the United States lags behind on coverage, cost, and outcomes because we cling to a multi-payer private insurance model that puts shareholder returns ahead of patient care. Brian supports Medicare for All, a single-payer national health insurance system that would guarantee comprehensive coverage to every person in America, including preventive care, hospital services, prescription drugs, dental, vision, hearing, and mental health. It would ensure families aren’t forced to ration care, and end the practice of tying coverage to employment so workers are not trapped in bad jobs out of fear of losing their family's healthcare. A unified system would cut the hundreds of billions in administrative waste created by the current model and use the bargaining power of an entire nation to drive down the cost of drugs, devices, and services. Medicare for All is not radical. It is common sense, and it is the only path to a healthcare system that finally works for everyone.

After the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, access to reproductive healthcare became dangerously unequal across state lines, and millions of women lost rights they had held for half a century. Brian will fight to pass federal legislation codifying the protections previously guaranteed under Roe, ensure access to safe and legal abortion services nationwide, and protect both healthcare providers and patients from state-level criminal penalties. He will also expand access to contraception and family planning services, defend Title X funding, and protect interstate travel for reproductive care. The right to make your own healthcare decisions should never depend on what state you happen to live in.

The rising cost of prescription medications is one of the most direct hits American families take to their wallet, driven by an industry that prices the same medication ten times higher here than across the border. Brian will fight to give Medicare full authority to negotiate drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies, cap out-of-pocket prescription costs for consumers, and require transparency across the pharmaceutical supply chain so families can see who is profiting from their pain. He will crack down on pharmacy benefit managers and other middlemen that inflate costs without delivering value, ensuring savings actually reach patients at the pharmacy counter. No family should have to ration insulin or skip a prescription because of cost.

Healthcare has to take the mind as seriously as the body. Brian supports a substantial increase in federal funding for community-based mental health programs, full integration of mental health services into primary care so patients can get help in the same place they see their doctor, and expanded access to treatment for substance use disorders including the opioid addiction that continues to claim New Jersey lives. He will also invest in workforce development to train and retain the next generation of mental health professionals, because too many of our communities sit on waitlists for the providers they need. Mental health is health, and a system that treats it as an afterthought will continue to fail millions of Americans.

Corporate greed has turned American healthcare into a wealth extraction scheme. Private equity firms are buying up hospitals, nursing homes, and physician practices, loading them with debt and slashing staff while walking away with the profits. Insurance giants use algorithms and artificial intelligence to deny claims in bulk, forcing sick people to fight for coverage they already paid for. Hospital and insurer consolidation has eliminated competition market after market, and roughly 100 million Americans now carry medical debt that should never have existed. Brian will fight to ban private equity ownership in healthcare settings where patients are at risk, crack down on AI-driven claims denials, strengthen antitrust enforcement against hospitals and insurer mergers, expand surprise billing protections, and remove medical debt from credit reports. Brian rejects corporate PAC money because the people who profit from this system are not the people he answers to.