How we fix our prior authorization problems…
For years, I thought I just had terrible luck with doctors and pharmacies. How was it that every couple months, I would wind up having to go back and forth from my insurance, to my doctor, to my pharmacy, to figure out why some medicine my kids or I had been prescribed wasn’t going to be available to us because of something called “prior authorization.” As I’ve been out in the community meeting voters, I have learned how widespread and insidious the prior authorization really is, and I have also learned that it is completely fixable.
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I support policies that don’t yet have universal backing within the party, like Medicare for All and “back-from-the-brink” legislation that would ensure no single person, including President Donald Trump, has unilateral authority to launch nuclear weapons. When you listen to people across the district, you don’t start by asking what party they belong to. You ask what they care about. People want to be safe, afford to live here and cool down the tone of our politics.