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-0.0976311 11.9805 -0.0976311 12.371 0.292893L20.371 8.29289C20.7615 8.68342 20.7615 9.31643 20.371 9.70696C19.9805 10.0975 19.3475 10.0975 18.957 9.70696L10.957 1.70696C10.5664 1.31643 10.5664 0.683417 10.957 0.292893Z" fill="white"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><section id="brxe-ugcvup" class="brxe-section bricks-lazy-hidden"><div id="brxe-jiwwhg" class="brxe-container bricks-lazy-hidden"><div id="brxe-eefzgx" class="brxe-text"><p><b>When I was 28 years old, I almost died.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">I was running in my first race for the Texas House. I decided to walk the entire length of my district — 25 miles in one day — holding town halls along the way. I wasn’t worried about my ability to finish the walk — I hike Big Bend every year!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">But about halfway through, I started feeling nauseous and fatigued. I threw up a couple of times on the way, but figured I was just dehydrated. Somehow, I finished.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">When I got home, I slept for 36 hours. My family rushed me to the ER, where nurses checked my blood sugar. I was immediately diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I was in diabetic ketoacidosis, which ends in coma and death without insulin.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">When I got out of the ICU, I went to Walgreens to pick up my first 30-day supply of insulin. It cost me $684. I didn’t have that kind of money (most Texans don’t, either) — so I put it on a credit card. I later learned that it costs companies only $10 per vial to produce insulin, but Big Pharma boosts profits by price gouging.</span></p>
</div><div id="brxe-oiayjc" class="brxe-block bricks-lazy-hidden"><svg class="brxe-svg" id="brxe-bstbgm" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="54" height="51" viewBox="0 0 54 51" fill="none"><path d="M11.9303 20.44V2.76C11.9303 1.24 13.1603 0 14.6903 0H25.0903C26.6103 0 27.8503 1.23 27.8503 2.76V9.05C27.8503 9.05 31.9903 11.64 36.2303 11.64C40.4703 11.64 45.0403 10.65 47.7203 11.78C50.4003 12.91 50.5503 14.04 50.7303 15.78C50.9103 17.52 52.1003 22.28 52.7103 24.16C53.3203 26.04 53.7503 29.67 51.5803 32.4C49.4103 35.13 47.5303 36.21 45.7403 37.2C43.9503 38.19 40.5603 39.46 39.6603 41.96C38.7603 44.46 38.5303 46.48 38.4803 48.27C38.4303 50.06 37.2603 50.72 36.5503 50.72C35.8403 50.72 32.6903 49.59 30.9503 48.27C29.2103 46.95 29.0203 45.87 28.4103 43.75C27.8003 41.63 26.7103 38.57 23.8903 36.64C21.0603 34.71 18.7603 33.86 16.9203 34.05C16.0703 34.1 15.4603 37.06 13.4303 37.06C11.4003 37.06 8.58028 34.75 7.64028 34.19C6.70028 33.63 6.70028 32.87 6.51028 31.46C6.32028 30.05 6.46028 29.25 4.67028 27.97C2.88028 26.69 0.960282 24.63 0.300282 23.74C-0.359718 22.85 -0.0297184 20.63 2.28028 20.63C4.59028 20.63 11.9403 20.44 11.9403 20.44H11.9303Z" fill="black"></path></svg><div id="brxe-voxnkh" class="brxe-text-basic">It’s time to take our fight for guaranteed health care to our nation’s capital.</div><div id="brxe-kopjec" class="brxe-text-basic">— James Talarico —</div></div><div id="brxe-hcunid" class="brxe-text"><p><b>So when I got elected, I passed bills that capped insulin copays at $25 a month and allowed Texas to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada at a fraction of what they cost in the U.S. due to price gouging by Big Pharma.</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">But there’s so much more to do. Republicans in DC just passed the largest transfer of wealth in American history with their “Big Ugly Bill.” They slashed Medicaid and Medicare, are kicking 15 million people off their health insurance, and raised premiums for millions more — </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">all to give yet another tax break for billionaires.</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">It’s time to take our fight for guaranteed health care to our nation’s capital and finally put the lives of Americans over the profits of billionaire mega-donors and special interests. </span></p>
<p><b>Because health care is a human right.</b></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WE DID IT!! We capped the out-of-pocket cost of insulin in Texas! </p>
<p>Our bill is headed to the Governor’s desk for a signature! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/EMe4zfph4n">https://t.co/EMe4zfph4n</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1396887193445097480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I paid $684 for my first 30-day supply of insulin.</p>
<p>That's because Big Pharma has manipulated the insulin market to drive up prices.</p>
<p>Senator Perry and I just passed bipartisan legislation to crack down on insulin price gouging. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/gT7URwLZiE">pic.twitter.com/gT7URwLZiE</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1662974556074569728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WE DID IT!!!</p>
<p>The Senate just passed my bill to import cheap prescription drugs from Canada and save Texans ~70% on everything from EpiPens to cancer medications.</p>
<p>We took on Big Pharma and won! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/CsuysH6VGS">https://t.co/CsuysH6VGS</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1660783258487906307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 22, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ken Paxton’s crimes are well known. But John Cornyn may be even more corrupt.</p>
<p>Cornyn was the deciding vote on the “Big Ugly Bill” — kicking millions off their healthcare to give his billionaire donors a tax cut.</p>
<p>That is corruption of the highest order. <a href="https://t.co/mc5jVyPjkA">pic.twitter.com/mc5jVyPjkA</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1976361471501271114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesTalarico</a>: We have politicians who have ‘Christ follower’ in their Twitter bios, but they are kicking the sick off health care. It's estimated 51,000 Americans will die needlessly if these GOP cuts go through. That's 51,000 flesh and blood human beings. That’s a moral crime <a href="https://t.co/VdmA5ZlRo0">pic.twitter.com/VdmA5ZlRo0</a></p>
<p>— Team Talarico (@TeamTalaricoHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamTalaricoHQ/status/1976703966223515801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Speaker Mike Johnson says his entire worldview comes from the Bible.</p>
<p>But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas.</p>
<p>If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth. <a href="https://t.co/NHvWdZilOi">pic.twitter.com/NHvWdZilOi</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/2001871305956905143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<li><b>Allow every American — regardless of their age — to join Medicare: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Provide an affordable not-for-profit health care option for every American, while also bringing down costs for those who don’t participate by increasing competition with private insurance.</span></li>
<li><b>Lower prescription drug costs: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Increase price transparency and negotiating power to ensure fair pricing, incentivize the development and approval of generic drugs, institute caps on out-of-pocket costs, and regulate pharmacy benefit managers to ensure they’re not up-charging patients.</span></li>
<li><b>Protect health coverage and lower premiums: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Protect and improve the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reverse the Trump Administration’s dangerous cuts to the ACA enhanced tax credits, Medicare, and Medicaid that will kick 15 million Americans off their insurance and raise premiums for millions more.</span></li>
<li><b>Reform the prior authorization system: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Ensure that insurance companies do not arbitrarily deny patients the medication and treatments that their health care providers have determined necessary. </span></li>
<li><b>Restore access to reproductive health care in Texas: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Codify</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400"> Roe v. Wade</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> and protect access to contraception and IVF so that families can get the reproductive care they need and so that women are no longer dying needlessly due to Texas’ dangerous abortion ban.</span></li>
<li><b>Save rural hospitals: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Prioritize recruiting and retaining rural health care workers, improve Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rates to more swiftly deliver payments to hospitals, and</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">make sure rural hospitals have the funding they need to continue to serve as vital employers and health care providers.</span></li>
<li><b>Protect Americans from crippling medical debt: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Regulate medical debt collection practices, bar the inclusion of medical debt in credit scores, and increase transparency and public reporting of both medical billing practices and the allocation of financial assistance provided by hospitals.</span></li>
<li><b>Ensure veterans have access to the services they’ve earned: </b>Stand against efforts to privatize the VA, and fund the agency to ensure every veteran receives the quality care they need.</li>
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<li><b>Lowered prescription drug costs </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by capping insulin </span><span style="font-weight: 400">co-pays at $25 a month</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> in Texas, allowing Texas to import </span><span style="font-weight: 400">cheaper prescription drugs from Canada</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> at reduced costs, cracking down on </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Big Pharma for price-gouging</span><span style="font-weight: 400">, and establishing a </span><span style="font-weight: 400">prescription drug savings program</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> for uninsured Texans.</span></li>
<li><b>Held health insurance companies accountable </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by cracking down on </span><span style="font-weight: 400">surprise billings</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> for emergency care and banning insurance companies from </span><span style="font-weight: 400">steering patients to hospitals that overcharge for services</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li>
<li><b>Brought down health insurance premiums </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by </span><span style="font-weight: 400">regulating anticompetitive consolidation practices</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> that health care and insurance companies use to inflate prices.</span></li>
<li><b>Protected rural hospitals </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by approving the </span><span style="font-weight: 400">establishment of the State Office of Rural Hospital Finance and the Texas Rural Hospital Officers Academy.</span><b></b></li>
<li><b>Combatted the health care worker shortage </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by offering </span><span style="font-weight: 400">tuition and fee exemptions for emergency medical students</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li>
<li><b>Increased access to medical marijuana for adults </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by </span><span style="font-weight: 400">expanding patient eligibility and establishing a compassionate use review board</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li>
<li><b>Protected Medicaid access for thousands of Texans </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by using a procedural point of order on the floor of the Texas house to kill legislation that would have kicked people off their coverage.</span></li>
<li><b>Supported veterans’ mental health </b>by directing Texas agencies to research alternative therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.</li>
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