Defending an Equitable Health Safety Net
Medicaid & Medicare. We oppose cuts to Apple Health/Medicaid & Medicare that reduce eligibility or limit benefits. We support reducing Apple Health disparities for older adults and people with disabilities.
Immigrant health coverage. We prioritize maintaining recent immigrant coverage expansions that provide a lifeline to about 12,000 Washingtonians, and call for new Apple Health Expansion slots to address the over 17,000 who have been denied coverage due to capped funding.
Cascade Care Savings. We support maintaining state funding for Exchange premium assistance and expanding state funds to back fill expiring federal enhanced premium tax credits.
Progressive revenue. We support new progressive revenue to address the state’s revenue shortfall, rather than balancing the budget on the backs of marginalized communities
Improving Health Care Affordability
Stop unfair medical bills. We support protecting patients from harsh billing practices, such as excess garnishment for medical debt, reporting medical debt on credit scores, and surprise hospital facilities fees.
Slow corporate influence. We support addressing outsized profit incentives in health care by enhancing state oversight of health system consolidations and codifying corporate practice of medicine protections.
Improve transparency. We support shedding light on insurers and providers’ secretive health pricing.
Tackle high prices. We support re-balancing excessive hospital prices for state & school employee health plans, allowing reinvestment in primary care and behavioral health.
Expanding Access to Care
Reproductive health. As other states erode rights, we support improving & protecting access to contraception, abortion, and other reproductive health care in Washington.
Care denials. We support eliminating unnecessary care delays and denials, such as excessive prior authorization requirements.