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Affordable healthcare

Quality care, modern clinics, and coverage every family can afford.

A community nurse talking with a patient

. The challenge

No one should skip care over cost

Premiums keep climbing, rural clinics keep closing, and a single prescription can wreck a family budget. Marlowe's plan takes on the price-gougers, rebuilds local care, and guarantees mental health gets treated like health — because it is.

35%

Average premium reduction

24

New community clinics

. What's included

What the plan delivers

Lower premiums, capped drug prices

Extend enhanced tax credits, let Medicare negotiate more drugs, and cap insulin and essential prescriptions for every patient.

Clinics close to home

Fund 24 new community health centers and mobile units so no family drives an hour for basic care.

Mental health parity

Require insurers to cover mental health like physical health, and put counselors in every public school.

Protect coverage

Ban surprise billing for good, protect pre-existing condition coverage, and simplify enrollment to one page.

. How it passes

Care you can count on, step by step

MONTHS 1–6

Cap drug prices

Negotiation authority expanded; insulin capped on day one.

MONTHS 7–14

Open the clinics

First 12 community health centers break ground with local hiring.

MONTHS 15–24

Lock in parity

Mental health parity enforced; school counselors funded district-wide.