What Kim is Fighting For

Healthcare is a fundamental human right, and Kim is ready to bring her experience in health policy and public health to Congress.

Our current healthcare system doesn't work for anyone but insurance and pharmaceutical executives. People are dying because they can't afford care, and that's unacceptable.

Kim will fight to:

1. Lower prescription drug costs

2. Transition to single-payer Medicare for All

A single-payer healthcare system is the only way to guarantee that every American has access to healthcare, and will drastically reduce the amount of money our country spends on healthcare.

From our mountains to our coast, South Carolina is a place of immense natural beauty and resources.

We need to preserve our home for future generations, and that means getting real on climate breakdown and holding corporations accountable for the damage they have done to our environment. Our country needs a Green New Deal. If we do it right, we can make sure that the Upstate is a leader in high-paying green energy jobs.

Kim will fight to:

1. Hold corporations accountable for their damage to the environment

2. Achieve net-zero carbon emissions in the United States

3. Invest in green infrastructure and create high-paying green energy jobs

Kim grew up in a working-class family right here in SC-4 and understands the reality of so many working folks across the district. Kim will stand up to corporations and corruption and fight for the working families of SC-4.

Kim will fight to:

1. Make sure that corporations are paying their fair share in taxes

2. Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour

3. Guarantee paid family leave

4. Close the gender-wage gap

Whether or not a person has achieved a high school diploma is the greatest indicator of how long they will live. If we want people to live longer, healthier lives, we have to invest in a strong public education system that focuses on equity. It starts with universal pre-K. By expanding access to preschool programs, we not only help close the education gap between low-income students and their more affluent peers, we alleviate the financial burden felt by families struggling to afford daycare, which gets women back in the workforce and stimulates our economy.

Access to an affordable education can't stop after high school. The success of future generations will continue to be hindered by the devastating effects of the student debt crisis. We need to make sure that every American has access to a college or trade school education that they can afford.

Kim will fight to:

1. Create free, universal pre-school

2. Make public colleges, universities, and trade schools tuition-free

3. Cancel student loan debt for the millions of Americans that are being held back by it every day

Gun violence is a public health crisis, and it's time that our government treated it as such.

Kim believes in the right to bear arms, but also believes in working to make sure that guns are kept out of the hands of dangerous people. States that have strengthened gun laws have seen significant decreases in shootings and gun deaths, and Kim will make sure that happens on the federal level as well.

Kim will fight to:

1. Invest in gun violence research

2. Ensure universal background checks for all gun purchases

3. Close the Charleston loophole

As our country becomes more and more dependent on the internet, many parts of rural South Carolina still lack high-speed internet access. Rural areas without hospitals are increasingly dependent on telehealth as a means of consulting with their physician, and without broadband access telehealth services are impossible. Additionally, there are parts of our state where children must drive miles from their homes to be able to access the internet to do their homework. This is unacceptable.

Kim will fight to:

1. Ensure high-speed internet access to every American by 2025

Many mothers in the Upstate and across the country lack access to quality care throughout their pregnancies, leading to complications during labor and delivery and during the postpartum period.

Mothers are dying, and at an alarmingly disproportionate rate, Black mothers are dying. Kim is ready to work to improve health outcomes for mothers across the country and address the racial disparity in maternal health outcomes.

Kim will fight to:

1. Guarantee paid medical leave and paid family leave

2. Create access to obstetric telemedicine to improve health outcomes for mothers in rural areas

3. Provide federal funding to organizations that are working to improve Black maternal health outcomes

4. Until Medicare for All is in place, expand Medicaid coverage to provide quality and comprehensive care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period

5. Increase funding for organizations addressing maternal mental health, specifically prenatal and postpartum depression.

Our criminal justice system is broken, and low-income Americans and people of color continue to be incarcerated at alarmingly disproportionate rates. Kim believes in a criminal justice system that is truly just for all Americans.

Kim will fight to:

1. End private for-profit prisons and end cash bail

2. Legalize marijuana

3. Increase funding for public defenders to ensure they can properly defend their clients