• Expanded access to quality and affordable healthcare coverage for millions of Californians
     
  • Ended harmful insurance company practices like denying coverage for pre-existing conditions and dropping you from coverage if you get sick
     
  • Strengthened Medicare by closing the “donut hole,” providing free preventive care for seniors, and extending the solvency of the Medicare Trust Fund
     
  • Fought against efforts to end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher program
     
  • Working with Republicans and Democrats to ensure the new health care law works for every Valley resident
     
  • Fighting to establish a UC Merced Medical School
     
  • Brought hundreds of thousands of dollars to train medical professionals here in the Valley
     
  • Brought $167 million for rural healthcare clinics
     
  • Helped start the Regional Burn and Trauma Centers