Stratton Doubles Down on Government-Run Healthcare
Illinoisans are facing a healthcare affordability crisis, and audits of the Pritzker-Stratton administration's taxpayer-funded healthcare programs have uncovered significant waste, fraud concerns, enrollment errors, and massive cost overruns.
"Lt Governor Stratton’s extreme ‘blueprint’ for the nation includes a government-run healthcare system that would give politicians and bureaucrats even more control over the decisions families and small businesses make every day," said Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy.
"Working families don't need more government promises that end with higher costs and less accountability. They need common sense solutions that lower healthcare costs through competition, transparency, and eliminating waste and fraud.
In her post, Stratton additionally claimed that the nation would already have Medicare-for-All but for “too many leaders are beholden to corporations, rather than the people they were actually elected to represent…”
"It's remarkable to hear a candidate whose political career was jump started by the Madigan machine and whose Senate campaign is Pritzker-financed, complain about politicians serving powerful interests. The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking. Illinoisans should not be fooled into thinking Stratton is an independent actor un-beholden to political bosses. She knows exactly who she is in office to serve.
"Everyday Illinoisans are struggling with higher grocery bills, higher utility bills, higher taxes, and higher healthcare costs. They deserve a US Senator who will fight to lower the cost of living, not a Pritzker and Madigan made career politician who wants to export Illinois' failed policies to the rest of the country."
Don Tracy is available for phone, video, and in-studio interviews.
About Don Tracy:
Don is Senior Counsel at Brown, Hay & Stephens, the oldest law firm in Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln famously practiced law for four years. Public service is important to Don, with a lifetime spent in community service, most often in volunteer positions. He has served as Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, Chairman of the Illinois Gaming Board, Secretary of the Illinois Bar Foundation, President of the Sangamon County Bar Association, Chairman of the Illinois Corporate Acts Advisory Committee, and President of the Abraham Lincoln Association, President of the Oak Ridge Cemetery Board, among other community leadership positions. Born in Urbana, raised in Mt. Sterling in Western Illinois, and having raised his own family in Springfield in Central Illinois, Don has deep ties to "downstate Illinois." As the oldest of 12 children, family has always been important to Don.