Healthcare

I believe healthcare is a fundamental human right—not a privilege based on your job, your ZIP code, or your luck. That’s why I support the Medicare for All Act—because it’s time we guarantee every American access to high-quality, affordable healthcare, no matter where they live or what they earn.

This idea isn’t new. The first Medicare for All bill was introduced in Congress in 2003, and since then, Congress has considered it again and again—17 times across both the House and the Senate. And the evidence in its favor keeps growing.

According to Physicians for a National Health Program, Medicare for All would save more than $350 billion a year right away by cutting wasteful bureaucracy and bloated insurance overhead. A major 2020 study published in The Lancet found that we could reduce total national health spending by roughly 13%—over $450 billion a year—and save about 68,000 lives annually.

So the problem isn’t that we don’t know the solution—we do. The problem is politics. Too often, when one party puts forward a real fix, the other side blocks it—not because it’s wrong, but because they don’t want to give the other team a win. That’s exactly why I’m running as an Independent.

I’m not beholden to either political party or to the lobbyists who profit off our broken healthcare system. If we want real solutions—if we want a Congress that actually delivers—we need people in office who can’t be bullied by party leadership and won’t be bought by special interests.

For me, this fight is personal.

When I was growing up in the Mississippi Delta, I saw what happened when families couldn’t afford care. Years later, my father—once a healthy, active athlete and a mentor in our community—lost both legs and most of his vision to untreated diabetes. He was forced to stop working, we lost our vehicle, and we nearly lost the only home we had. That kind of devastation happens every day in Mississippi and across this country, and it’s preventable.

We already pay more than any country on Earth for healthcare. We spend over 14% of our GDP—and yet we rank far behind dozens of other nations in actual health outcomes. That’s not just unfair—it’s bad business.

We can do better. And as your next U.S. Senator, I’ll fight every day to make sure that we do.