Justice has already seen how our current system continues to fail our patients. Minnesotans should not have to ration medication or drain their savings to cover the cost of necessary treatments. COVID-19 highlighted how dysfunctional our current healthcare system is while also further exacerbating deep inequities. He fully supports Senator John Marty’s Minnesota Health Plan (MHP), a single-payer system run through the state that includes coverage for dental, vision, and mental health services. Under this plan, every single Minnesotan will be covered, including those with pre-existing conditions. You can read Justice’s Op-Ed published in MinnPost supporting the Minnesota Health Plan here. The MHP will end health insurance being tied to your job – because nobody should ever be forced to forego the medical care they need. While fighting for a single-payer system, Justice will advocate for expanding MinnesotaCare, lowering medication costs, and also fight to prevent our hospitals and clinics from closing – because regardless of where they occur in the state, it affects the quality and timeliness of care we all receive.
Healthcare for all means healthcare that works for all Minnesotans. This includes protecting and expanding LGBTQIA+ care, access to contraception, addiction-recovery services, decreasing racial health disparities, including maternal and infant mortality, improving access to mental health services, protecting women’s right to choose, ensuring adequate options for our aging population, investing in home care professionals, improving vaccination rates, and standing up to big Pharma and big tobacco. Additionally, this means investing in our current and future generation of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. We are facing high rates of burnout in our profession due to increased demands and stress despite working in a failing system. In order to make Minnesota thrive, we must ensure that those who take care of us are taken care of.
