Prescription drugs are critical but not always affordable, so I took on the Governor and more than a dozen pharmaceutical lobbyists to give access to discounted prescriptions for families with no prescription insurance that would have saved them an average of 38% on costs. Money to administer the program was vetoed, but I will reinstate it when I am elected
I opposed the Governor’s pennywise and pound foolish cuts to MinnesotaCare because the program provides affordable basic care to uninsured working Minnesotans who otherwise will go to expensive emergency hospitals
After the Governor’s Department of Health admitted to hiding the mine workers’ deaths from mesothelioma, I shifted the study of the deaths from that department to the medical school at the U of M and funded their work toward understanding causes and discovering cure for workers exposed to lung damage
With careful controls, I passed legislation to allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana with physician’s oversight, but the Governor didn’t think dying Minnesotans and their doctors could be trusted so he vetoed the bill
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