Key Issues
The urgency of the moment compels every doctor to save Democracy. All issues flow from this core purpose.
- Protecting American democracy– We have seen Democracy across all the fronts listed below. Ohio in 2023 showed how Democracy can be saved, we can do it again in 2025.
- Ensuring Americans Can See Their Doctor- The MAGA movement is obsessed with cutting millions of us off from being able to see a doctor when illness or injury strikes. The current assault on the ACA is via an attempt to explode those premiums. If allowed to happen, 24 million could be cut off from health care. It is now the law that Medicaid will be cut, with an estimated 16 million more Americans at risk from being cut off from their health care. The result is that America is furious. The threat of being cut off from care was a major force in the Election of 2025. The doctors’ voice is crucial in this fight to be sure no American dies for lack of insurance and that no American go broke for getting sick.
- Standing up for Science– The United States has never endured this extreme attack on medical science. The US once led the world. Nearly half of all Nobel Prizes in Medicine have been given to Americans. Over 98% of all prescriptions filled in the US are for drugs that only exist because of NIH grants. Over 154 million lives have been saved by vaccines since 1974. All that is being destroyed by the Trump administration and MAGA movement. DOHCS stands with medical science and holds events to bring our voice as doctors to do just that across our community. When science is attacked, we are all attacked, for loss of potential advances, for the loss of understanding, for the erosion of fact, the firmest foundation for any Democracy.
- Reproductive Rights– DOHCS was a leading partner of OPRR when it led the fight to secure reproductive health freedom in Ohio, and amended our state Constitution (https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-constitution/section-1.22) That fight is far from over. From national bans of mifepristone to seeking baks of reproductive freedom all together, the Trump administration and MAGA movement is very active. And must we be. One of the most reliable measures of the health of a Democracy is the respect and Freedom enjoyed by the women of that nation and community.