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Healthcare for All

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. 

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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. 

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Public Safety

Fully investing in public safety means fully investing in our communities. Things such as affordable housing, healthcare, education, infrastructure, livable wages, mental health services, substance use disorder treatment, and supportive services all play critical roles in the safety of all Minnesotans.  We as a state must work to pass legislation between our communities and the public safety system so that it both protects and serves them. Policy changes in public safety must proactively invest in and protect our communities instead of making reactionary reform, including the ever developing world of AI. 

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​Public safety that works for the people also means holding the federal government accountable for Operation Metro Surge for the financial, social, and emotional damage created from the campaign. In order to rebuild our communities, significant investments need to be made to support small businesses, rebuild trust with our neighbors, and prosecute the numerous constitutional violations committed. 

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Climate and Environmental Action

As a state and nation, we must take swift, bold action on climate change. Environmental policy - just like criminal justice policy - must be made proactively instead of reactively after a crisis. Our state is known for its lakes, wildlife, and forestry - Minnesota can and must lead the nation on preservation and clean energy policy.

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Justice supports the 100% campaign for clean energy by 2040, continuing to put environmental guardrails on data centers, Prove it First legislation, a data center moratorium, and investing in clean drinking water infrastructure. Our energy policy must also acknowledge that climate policy has disproportionately hurt our Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. Our climate policy must focus on a clean energy future while also acknowledging the harm of previous policies like the redlining of the Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul and actively invest in these communities. 

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Not only is green energy good for our environment, but it is also good for our labor force. Investing in renewable energy sources like wind and solar creates good-paying jobs that can put thousands of Minnesotans to work. Environmental protection also means enacting laws to ban harmful chemicals, whether it is for our croplands in rural Minnesota that harvest and supply food for the entire country or for our local plants and pollinators. 

Equity, Inclusivity, & Human Rights

 

Policies we make today must center on those who have historically been excluded and forgotten about. The late Senator Paul Wellstone's quote "We all do better when we all do better" still rings true today, but that means everyone must be at the table and have their voices heard. 

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Justice Supports:

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  • Racial justice initiatives that fully invest in our Minnesotans of color. This includes policies, initiatives, and funds that work towards eliminating current disparities in education, healthcare, criminal justice, economic security, housing, opportunity, and more.

  • Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and fighting for gender equality in all forms.

  • Policies that help lift low-income Minnesotans out of poverty through community resources, financial aid, and access to good-paying jobs.

  • Ensuring that all Minnesotans living with mental or physical disabilities are always provided the resources and accommodations they need to live their life with as much ease as possible.

  • Welcoming and supporting immigrants and refugees as they add to the rich diversity and prosperity of our state.

  • Working to stop the violation of hundreds of years of Indigenous treaties while creating new policies that further protect tribal lands and traditions.​

Gun Reform

Gun violence in both Minnesota and the United States needs common-sense policy reforms. We lose too many lives every single year to both homicide and suicide by firearm. Many more are wounded by gunfire and have chronic, debilitating injuries that severely impact their livelihood. In the medical field, data drives decision-making and we need to continue to provide funding for gun violence prevention to make our communities safe. Gun violence is not solely a Twin Cities area issue - most rural Minnesota counties have a gun death rate more than two times the rate of our urban areas. Additionally, gun violence costs our state billions of dollars per year. 

 

Justice has seen the dire impacts of gun violence on our communities in patients he has treated, taking care of both adults and children who have died due to firearms. Together, we can enact policies that keep everyone safe while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners. These policies include banning assault-style weapons, closing the gun-show loophole, banning ghost guns, and enacting laws such as lost and stolen firearm reporting requirements, bulk firearm purchase restrictions, magazine capacity restrictions, and gun industry accountability laws.​​

Education

Investing in education is investing in our future. We must fully fund our education system to eliminate the deep racial and economic disparities in our state and set our next generation of Minnesotans up for success. Supporting education also means supporting our teachers and school staff. Coming from a family of educators, Justice knows about the hard work, time commitment, and dedication it takes to teach. Teachers are the backbone of our future despite receiving inadequate funding and resources. Educators across the state have been pushed to extreme limits to provide education to our kids, and we must provide them with adequate wages, resources, and support. 

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Justice knows about the high cost of higher education from first-hand experience - working three jobs during undergrad still left him needing to take out student loans to pay. Post-secondary education should be accessible to those who want to pursue it, not only to those who can afford it. 

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Education policies that Justice supports:

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  • Funding for universal pre-K

  • Basing school funding on income taxes instead of property taxes

  • Reducing class sizes for more personalized learning

  • Fully fund Special Education while also increasing support personnel in schools, such as counselors, therapists, and paraprofessionals 

  • Improving the pay of hourly workers

  • Protecting educators' rights to unionize to fight for better wages, benefits, and working conditions

  • Tuition-free higher education for public schools, including community colleges and vocational schooling

  • Improving and expanding loan forgiveness programs and refinancing options, supporting federal executive authority to provide debt relief for student loans

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Housing, Economic Security & Labor

Every single Minnesotan has the right to a good job, adequate shelter, and economic security. Justice has seen patients of his who are forced to work 80+ hours a week just to make ends meet. Ensuring economic stability for all is critical to the well-being of our state. As a resident physician, Justice was on the initial organizing committee to start the unionization process for all of the University of Minnesota resident and fellow physicians. 

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Justice's Economic, Housing, and Labor Priorities:

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  • Protect, support, and encourage the right to unionize for all

  • Support a $15 minimum wage

  • Passage of the Minnesota Health Plan, which will take the economic burden off of both large and small businesses to provide health coverage to their employees, allowing them to raise wages

  • Tackle the housing crisis by enacting statewide zoning reform to make the "Missing Middle" more possible, passing single stair legislation, and providing dedicated bonds for affordable housing

  • Create a fair tax system where everyone pays their fair share

  • Equal pay for equal work

  • Expand the Child-Tax credit

  • Partner with small businesses to foster growth, development, and long-term success 

  • Protect our seniors' ability to retire

  • Fight for safe working conditions so all employees are free of discrimination and sexual harassment

  • Push for affordable childcare - because nobody should be forced to choose between returning to work or needing to stay home for their family

  • Ensure that Minnesotans have access to affordable housing and rental assistance programs

Infrastructure & Transportation

Infrastructure matters to everyone in our state as we all rely on our roads, bridges, public buildings, and sanitation systems every day. Investing in new projects not only makes our communities safer and easier to navigate, but it is also an investment in our economy. New projects spark an economic opportunity for Minnesotans to get good-paying jobs that help their community. Just as with climate policy, we must invest in infrastructure proactively before a crisis hits, not after a disaster. This includes investing heavily in public transportation, streamlining the process for municipalities to bring sales tax proposals for critical infrastructure projects directly to voters without needing authorization from the legislature, and supporting state bonding efforts.

 

A 21st-century world must be met with a 21st-century infrastructure plan that includes things like increasing access to broadband, robust clean energy transportation systems, renewable energy projects, and clean drinking water initiatives. Additional infrastructure projects should focus on the current needs of our communities, including investments in housing, childcare, and our strained healthcare system.

Government Ethics & Transparency

Minnesotans deserve an open, transparent, accessible, and responsible government that works for them. Justice promises to make the Capitol a place where your voice is heard and represented. He promises to be easily accessible and responsive to all of your questions, concerns, or legislative ideas. Policies that move us towards a better government include:

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  • Ranked Choice Voting

  • Ensuring and increasing transparency in making public policy, including opening access to conference committee negotiations

  • Expanding voter access with automatic voter registration and promoting early voting and vote-by-mail programs

  • Making legislators' conflicts of interest available to the public

  • Term Limits

  • Creation of an Office of Inspector General to investigate fraud and increase transparency, continue improving integrity in state-run programs, while also ensuring essential services are not disrupted

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