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HEALTHCARE

Supporting Accessible and Affordable Healthcare

Healthcare is a human right. Everyone should have access to preventative, diagnostic, and medical care at a cost that will not impoverish them. An Ohioan should not have to decide between food or medicine, housing or seeing a doctor. The mindset that healthcare for all is not possible is not helpful. Our state would benefit from a healthy population. Healthy students learn better, healthy workers work harder, a healthy state is more attractive to all. Our profit-driven healthcare system is broken; insurance companies should not dictate what tests to get, which doctors to see, etc. As your representative I will work for legislative solutions to ensure that healthcare professionals are the ones making such decisions.

PUBLIC EDUCATION

Reinvesting Public Money into All Levels of Public Education

The state should reinvest public funds in all levels of public education and vocational training. We must fully support the development of public schools by providing living wages to our teachers. As your legislator, I will listen to the experts in education about what is best for our students instead of expecting teachers to teach to a test. If the state allows our teachers to do what they learned to do, then we can expect great things. In the 90s, I graduated from a small, country, northwest Ohio public high school, confident that I received a quality education. Now I am confident that, with proper investment and support for educational professionals, students in OH-83 can be certain they are graduating with a top-notch education.

SMALL BUSINESSES

Advocating for Local Small Businesses

Local small businesses are part of the American fabric.  Local entrepreneurs love their community and thus decided to start a business where they live.  They offer  products and services geared toward the community, provide owners and employees who know their customers, and ensure that the dollars spent remain in the community.  These business members support community activities, such as little league teams and local charities and hire community members. In turn, community members should support their local businesses.  As your representative, I will advocate for the local businesses in our district at the state level, endeavor to enact beneficial legislation, and bring state funds back to the people of the 83rd. Ultimately, our local businesses are the backbone of the American Dream.