2020 CANDIDATE PROGRAM Chris Bubser (D/CA-08) Current Seat Paul Cook (R) Holder Seat Status Leans R After earning her MBA from UCLA, Christine “Chris” Bubser worked as a biotech executive and trustee of Temple Israel of Biographical Hollywood. She co-founded HangOutDoGood (HODG), a Sketch grassroots community of volunteers, and has dedicated her adult life to combatting climate change and affecting prison reform.
Receipts: $356,708.49 Individual: $349,848.50 Disbursements: $129,058.42 FEC Filing as of PAC: $3,000.00 Cash on Hand: $227,650.00 12/18/2019 Party: Debt: 0 Candidate: $3,459.69 Other: Polling Not Currently Available AFL-CIO, California Labor, Rep. Raul Ruiz, Rep. Ted Lieu, Rep. Katie Porter, Rep. Gil Endorsements Cisneros, Rep. Mike Levin 1. Healthcare 4. Economy 7. Environment Top Campaign 2. Education 5. Veterans 8. Immigration Issues 3. Pro-Choice 6. Gun Violence Chris believes that healthcare is a fundamental right and will fight to make sure every American has quality, affordable healthcare coverage. She will work to preserve and expand Role of Healthcare the critical protections of the Affordable Care Act to provide medical security and peace of in the Campaign mind to the residents of the 8th district. Chris will address out-of-reach drug prices so that treatment of both common and acute illnesses never threatens the financial stability of our families. California’s 8th Congressional District includes the eastern desert regions from Mono Lake to Twenty-nine Palms, and most of San Bernardino County. It is the most thinly-populated District Profile district in the state, and is very diverse. 2016 Presidential Vote: Trump 54%, Clinton 39% Cook’s Partisan Voter 2018 Congressional Vote: Cook 60%, Donnelly 40% Index: R+9 Campaign Charlie Baran Manager [email protected] Contact 14156 Amargosa Rd. Suite H Information Victorville, California Social Media https://www.facebook.com/bubser4congress Updated 12/18/2019
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CANDIDATE PROGRAM HEALTHCARE POSITIONS
Chris Bubser (D/CA-08)
Data provided from publicly Regional Director met with As of: available third party sources candidate 02/06/2020
Executive Summary & Overall Rating Well-informed on healthcare issues? YES NO Looking for HLC’s help to learn healthcare issues? YES NO Supportive of HLC’s agenda generally? YES NO Elected official or other government background? YES NO If so, what? ______Has a healthcare background or healthcare connection? YES NO If so, what? 3 decades experience in healthcare/biotech (Amgen and Genentech) OVERALL HEALTHCARE PHILOSOPHY Chris supports universal healthcare and building on the ACA. She is open to the idea of a public option/ Medicare/Medicaid buy-in but would want the government to compete fairly with the market to maintain private
coverage options. She is very open to working with HLC to learn more about best practices for improving the healthcare industry. Chris’s focus is on helping those in rural communities get healthcare access: telehealth, protecting rural hospitals, transportation, caregiving, building a sustainable workforce and reducing costs (prescription and out of pocket). Chris is particularly concerned for the older adult/senior population healthcare needs.
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Value-Based healthcare can only be achieved if current federal fraud and abuse laws are 4 modernized to allow greater collaboration by private healthcare entities. Telehealth is essential in addressing healthcare access disparities and these services should be 5 expanded through increased funding. A new government-run health insurance system is the best answer to providing affordable 4 coverage to all Americans. 5 Behavioral health services should be an integral part of a coordinated healthcare framework. In Medicare Parts C and D, the private sector negotiates lower prices more efficiently than the 3 government can and this successful approach should be maintained. The government adequately pays healthcare providers to educate the next generation of 5 physicians. Extraordinary measures to control prices such as drug importation or replicating the government 3 price controls of other countries will undermine medical innovation and the development of new treatments.