Fixing Our Healthcare System and Finally Achieving Universal Healthcare for All

Since the age of 19, Scott has lived with a chronic health condition — Crohn’s Disease (an autoimmune disease) — Scott has seen first hand how broken and fragmented our healthcare system is. That’s why he’s fought tirelessly to take on and defeat the powerful interests that undermine healthcare access and affordability. Scott’s work has helped set California on a better path — expanding health care access, lowering costs, and laying the foundation for a Medicare for All single-payer system. Now it’s time to bring that success to Washington.
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Scott’s firm belief that health care is a human right drove him to pass the biggest expansion of mental healthcare in California history, forcing giant insurance companies to cover mental health and addiction treatment the same way they cover physical health conditions. As Senate Budget Chair, Scott helped defend MediCal — including for undocumented Californians — as Trump took a wrecking ball to the program, and protected funding for reproductive health care, HIV care, and other critical needs. Scott has consistently championed single-payer health care, and, working with a broad labor/community coalition, he passed a law advancing single payer in California.

The cost of healthcare is just as important as access. That’s why Scott took on the giant mega-corporations known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to stop them from jacking up the cost of medication to pad their profits. Scott also passed California’s first price cap for insulin, so the four million Californians living with diabetes don’t have to choose between taking their medication and putting food on the table.

When Trump moved to destroy federal science agencies and slash university research budgets, Scott responded immediately. He built a coalition of labor unions, universities, scientists, businesses, and students to advance a massive funding measure in California to launch a new scientific research institute and keep California at the global frontier. In Congress, Scott will fight to restore and expand federal investment in science, to protect innovation as a pillar of American prosperity and ensure the U.S. remains the world leader.

In Congress, Scott will work to:

• Pass Medicare for All so we can enshrine healthcare as a universal right for all Americans into law.
• Protect and expand Medicaid, and fight every attempt by Trump and congressional Republicans to gut coverage for tens of millions of low-income Americans.
• Cap insulin at $35 per month nationally, crack down on pharmacy benefit managers that jack up drug prices, and let Medicare negotiate drug prices directly.
• Force insurance companies to cover mental health and addiction treatment the same way they cover physical health — extending California's landmark parity law to every American — and removing prior authorizations.
• Restore, protect, and expand vaccine access, research, and requirements.

Scott's Past Legislation

• SB 40 (2025): Caps co-pays for insulin at $35 per month in California.
• SB 41 (2025): Cracks down on pharmaceutical megacorporations called pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to prohibit behaviors that were
• SB 770 (2023): Takes concrete steps towards universal health coverage in California by directing the California Health and Human Services Agency (HHS) to consult with the federal government to create a universal healthcare system, such as a single payer system.
• SB 855 (2020): The California Parity Act, is the biggest expansion of mental health and addiction benefits in decades. It requires parity between how insurance companies cover mental health treatments and medical treatments.
• SB 221 (2021): Requiring timely access to mental health appointments and preventing insurance companies from delaying care.