Fighting for Working Families
Carleigh believes Congress must deliver for all our families: protect and expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.
We must make healthcare, childcare, eldercare, and housing truly affordable and accessible for everyone. To ensure that healthcare is recognized as a human right, Carleigh will push for a single-payer healthcare system that includes coverage for mental health, vision, and dental.
She calls for a tax system that lifts up working families and supports raising the minimum wage, strengthening unions, and enacting overdue criminal justice reform.
Medicare for All, but even better
This summer, Republicans in Congress voted to rip away healthcare from millions of people nationwide. This “Big Beautiful Bill” was signed into law by the president, and will add 4 TRILLION dollars to the national debt over the next decade. In New Hampshire, we had our own cruel and fiscally irresponsible budget passed by the Republican majority in Concord and signed into law by Governor Ayotte. It exacerbates the effects of the Big Bill for Granite Staters, making healthcare harder to access and more expensive for too many of us. Here are the facts:
1 in 4 kids here in New Hampshire rely on Medicaid for checkups and to get the healthcare they need.
46,000 of our friends, neighbors, and family members across the Granite State will lose their coverage thanks to the bill passed by the GOP.
Over 300 rural hospitals across the country will close, leaving communities with few options to find affordable care locally.
Our government SHOULD NOT be taking healthcare away from our kids and neighbors. Itʼs wrong, and itʼs bad policy.
When Carleigh launched this campaign in June, she was the first candidate in this race to support Medicare for All. Carleigh has also been clear that we need to improve Medicare so that it truly works for all of us. That means a single-payer system like Medicare that covers vision and dental for every American, from birth to death.
After listening to people in the district who have relied on Medicaid and Medicare at different points in their lives and speaking with policymakers and experts across the country, including one of the founding members of Physicians for a National Health Program, Carleigh has learned why so many of you agree that access to good healthcare should not be tied to your age, your job, or how much money you have.
A better world is in reach. We donʼt need to live in a state or a country with leaders who think that tax breaks for the rich are more important than healthcare for kids--or the rest of us.