• We believe health care is a basic human right and support universal health care.

• We believe quality health care must include physical, mental, and oral health care, at the right

time, including prevention and early intervention and in a clinically appropriate setting based

on access in all urban and rural geographic areas.

• Public health and emergency preparedness are essential responsibilities of government,

including seeking federal support to implement robust public health programs and combat the

current pandemic and all future public health emergencies.

• We support expanding the use of telehealth to improve access to health care for all people in

every part of New Hampshire. 

• We believe in strengthening our community mental health system through an integrated

approach with expanded, well-funded prevention programs, including suicide prevention and

early intervention, to transform our fragmented mental healthcare system.

• We oppose criminalizing people with mental illness and transferring the mentally ill who have

not been charged with a crime to a prison setting.

• We believe in gender equity and cultural sensitivity for individuals who are transgender, non-

binary, or from racially underserved communities and that this sensitivity should inform health

care delivery and access.

• We believe in affordable, safe, confidential, respectful access to the full range of reproductive

health care, including contraception and abortion care, regardless of geography, income or

insurance coverage, and free from government interference. 

• We believe sexual and reproductive health education for all young people promotes public

health and social stability and decreases gender and ethnic wage gaps.

• We believe in a comprehensive approach to ending the deadly substance use disorder crisis

facing our state, including the expansion of prevention, harm reduction, and treatment

programs.