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A doctor in the House
Candidate after candidate. Especially women. Especially women in medicine. Decided to run for Congress or some other office after the 2016 election. Some made their decision final in response to Trumpcare proposals.
……You might be skeptical of that reasoning. I’m not. I think about my reasoning. The impetus to write these Political Notes was the 2016 election. I went to the Women’s march in New York City with my wife, my son, and my granddaughter.
……Marching was not enough. I began writing.
……Kim Schrier https://www.drkimschrier.com/ is smart and diligent. BA from the University of California, Berkeley. In astrophysics. Phi Beta Kappa. Her medical degree was from the University of California, Davis.
……Kim Schrier showed few hints of political interest, let alone ambition. She received an award as the medical student judged by his/her peers to best exhibit a … “humanitarian, compassionate, and community-minded character.” She was voted Best Pediatrician by parents in the greater Seattle area in a magazine story. She was an activist public school parent.
……Kim Schrier’s childhood ambition was to be a doctor. Treatment for Type I diabetes as a child was the spark. Her focus has been sustained by work with children and families who describe her as a listener.
……Kim Schrieris smart and diligent. Her interest in health care extended beyond the individual children and families she worked with. The proposals to abolish the Affordable Care Act got her attention. She prepared diligently to meet with her Congressman. She explained what was wrong, even dangerous about the Republican proposals.
……Her Congressman voted for Trumpcare in committee. Not long afterwards, he announced he would not run in 2018. Not long after that, Kim Schrier decided on her own candidacy.
……Kim Schrier has proposals. Make Medicare a public option that individuals or small businesses could opt into. Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices to get medical costs down. She notes particularly that insulin costs have increased from $40 a bottle to $240. She advocates for more medical research, especially for research on addiction and treatment for opioid addiction.
……Kim Schrier knows she cannot be a single issue candidate. She studied her district. Washington’s eighth Congressional District is the only one that includes both sides of the Cascade Mountains. Agriculture is important here. Trump’s trade policy and his immigration policies have hurt Washington agriculture.
……Kim Schrier added the agricultural economy, the economy in general, and women’s issues to her campaign. She cannot move herself away from health care, though. She may be the only Congressional candidate in the country to include vaccination in the list of issues the candidate wants to address.
……Kim Schrieris running for this open seat against state Senator Dino Rossi. He has been running for higher office for a while. In 2004, he lost a race for Governor by 133 votes. That was the closest he came. He lost by more in 2008. He lost again in a race for the US Senate in 2010. He does not distinguish himself from the Republican Congress. He supports the tax cut that was passed. He supports the attempts to end the Affordable Care Act.
……Support Kim Schrier https://www.drkimschrier.com/. Dino Rossi will not make it easy for her. Provide her with additional resources to win this election. The election is not far away.
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