No more surprise billing: We can strengthen the existing laws to protect us from surprise bills after services from a specialty provider. These surprise bills can be thousands of dollars when Kentuckians are already struggling to afford healthcare.

      An All Payer Claims Database: We can pass the existing bill to establish this database of medical providers, procedures, outcomes, and costs. This will expose our healthcare system to the free market and allow us to be not only patients but informed consumers.

     Establish Crisis Response Teams: These teams with specialized training in social services and mental health can help diffuse and deescalate dangerous situations our first responders encounter. Not only valuable on the scene, these teams can continue to help with an appropriate plan of care for Kentuckians who would otherwise become stuck in a cycle of emergency rooms and jail.

      Fund our schools like we promised we would: We haven’t lived up to the promise that we made to fund our public schools. When we devalue our schools, we devalue our students and Kentucky families deserve more than another empty promise about local education.

Governor Beshear has committed to cutting spending to bring us in line with the state budget that the legislature voted for. So far, other executive offices have refused to work with the Governor to commit to responsible spending. Our legislature needs to be honest with Kentuckians about spending and make sure that we get money back to our constituents and not to big businesses.

Protect our most vulnerable online. Washington, DC, is so full of tech billionaire money that they refuse to even consider our children’s safety online. We need to pass a bill to regulate AI so that online chatbots and billionaire tech companies have accountability and responsibility. If DC won’t step up then we will. We can help protect our kids from being endangered online. Our children’s safety is not for sale to tech billionaires.