Union Leader - February 11, 2020.
Front, inside, inside back and back.


Health Care:
Senator Klobuchar supports bringing down the cost of health care for everyone by putting a non-profit public option in place that allows people to buy into affordable health insurance coverage through Medicare or Medicaid. She supports changes to the Affordable Care Act to
help brlng down costs to consumers including providing cost-sharing reductions, maklng it easier for states to put reinsurance in place, and continuing to implement delivery system reform. And she's been fighting her whole life to brlng down the cost of prescription drugs.

Prescription Drugs:

When people are sick, their focus should be on getting better, rather than on how they can afford their prescriptions. Yet drug prlces are an increaslng burden across our country. Amy has been a champion when it comes to tackling the high costs of prescription drugs. She has authored proposals to lift the ban on Medicare negotiations for prescription drugs, allow personal importation of safe drugs from countries like Canada, and stop pharmaceutical companies from blocking less-expensive generics. Read more about Amy's prescription drug policies here.

Addiction and Mental Health:
Amy's dad struggled wlth alcoholism and she saw the toll that mental health and substance use disorders can take on families and communities. As President, Amy will combat substance use disorder and priorltize mental health, including launching new prevention and early intervention initiatives, expanding access to treatment, and giving Americans a path to sustainable recovery. Her plan will ensure that everyone has the right-and the opportunlty-to be pursued by grace and receive effective, professional treatment and help. Read more about Amy's policies to combat addiction and prioritize mental health here.

K-12 Education:
We need to make sure all our children can get a great education. That means increasing teacher pay and funding for our public schools, with a focus on investment in areas that need it the most. Amy will also work to close the opportunity gap, fix and update our school infrastructure, boost STEM education, and create additional new school "Progress Partnerships" that will allow states to take aggressive action to support our students.

Seniors:
Building on Amy's leadership in the Senate when it comes to lowerlng the cost of prescription drugs and addressing the challenges our seniors face, Amy will tackle Alzheimer's dlsease and other forms of dementia, enhance health care and retirement security, keep Social Security and Medicare strong, invest in long-term care and caregivers, reduce skyrocketing prescription drug costs and combat senior fraud and abuse.

Post-Secondary Education:
Amy believes there are many paths to success. As President, she will champion tuitlion-free one- and two-year community college degrees and technical certifications, expand apprenticeships, respect the dlgnity of work by paying people a decent living wage, and make it easier for Americans who need help to afford four year degrees. She wlll work to reduce the burden of student loans, support our Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and expand PelI Grants.

Labor:
As the granddaughter of an iron ore miner and the daughter of a union teacher and a union newspaperman, Amy will bring one clear but simple guide to the White House: When unions are strong, our country is strong. As President, she'II stand up against attempts to weaken our unions. That means achieving real labor law reform, ensuring free and fair union elections, protecting collective bargaining rights, rolling back Right to Work laws, and maklng it easier - and not harder - for workers to join unions.

lmmigration:
Comprehensive immigration reform is also crucial to moving our economy and our country forward. Amy supports a comprehensive immigration reform bill that includes the DREAM Act, border security and an accountable pathway to earned cltizenshlp. She Is committed
to stopplng the cruel and inhumane policy where the government is taklng kids away from their parents.

Housing:
As President, Amy will make a major investment in housing and poverty reduction. She will completely eliminate the Section 8 backlog and provide rental assistance to all Americans who qualify, increase access to homeownership whlle investing in neglected neighborhoods, tackle homelessness, and increase affordable rental housing in rural communities. She will also fight housing discrimination and invest in providing access to counsel in civil cases involving basic human needs.

Climate:
Amy is deeply committed to tackling the climate crisis and believes that it is an urgent priority for our communities, for our economy and for our planet. She is a co-sponsor of a Green New Deal and has signed the No Fossll Fuel Money Pledge. On day one of Amy's presidency she will get us back into the lnternational Climate Change Agreement. On day two and day three, she will bring back and strengthen clean power rules and gas mileage standards that the Obama Adminlstration put into place. And she will put forward sweeping legislation that provides a landmark investment in clean-energy jobs and infrastructure, provides incentives for tougher building codes, promotes rural renewable energy and development, supports a landmark carbon pricing system that does not have a regressive impact on Americans, promotes "buy clean" policies, and puts our country on a path to achieving 100% net-zero emissions no later than 2050.

Foreign Policy:
Amy believes that we need to stand strong- and consistently- with our allies and that we must respect our frontline troops, diplomats and intelligence officers, who are out there every day risking their lives for our country, and deserve better than foreign policy by tweet. She would invest in diplomacy and rebuild the State Department and modernize our military to stay one step ahead of China and Russia, including with serious investments in cybersecurlty. Amy's foreign policy agenda will focus on five pillars: renewlng American leadership, repairing our alliances, rejolnlng international agreements, responding appropriately to the threats and challenges that come before us, and reasserting American values.

Infrastructure:
Amy has proposed a bold plan to rebuild America's infrastructure, invest in our future, and create millions of good-paylng American jobs. Her plan includes repairing and replacing our roads, highways and bridges as well as building smart climate infrastructure, ensuring clean water, modernizing our airports, seaports and inland waterways, expanding reliable public transit options, rebuilding our schools, overhauling our country's housing policy, and connecting every household to the Internet by 2022.

Veterans:

We make a promise to those who serve in defense of our country to provlde them and their families the health care, education and economic opportunities they have earned. As President Amy, will make sure we keep that promise. She wlll improve veterans' health care, expand access to education and job training, connect those who served to jobs and economic opportunity, and stand up for our veterans, servicemembers, National Guard and reserve members.

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