Roy Cooper: “One reason that I’m running for the U.S. Senate is, stuff just costs too much. And a large contributor [to] that is health care costs.”
RALEIGH – On Thursday, Roy Cooper hosted a roundtable discussion in Greensboro on the high costs of health care. Roy discussed how insurance companies continue to raise prices and how leaders in Washington DC have driven up costs for hardworking families.
Greensboro News & Record: ‘Washington is broken’: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper pledges to fight for affordable health insurance, Medicaid expansion
Susie Spear
- “Washington is broken,” former North Carolina two-term governor Roy Cooper said to a small Greensboro group Thursday during a stop on the Democrat’s US Senate campaign trail to discuss health care with residents and doctors.
WXII: Roy Cooper Hosts Health Care Roundtable in Greensboro
- Reporter: “They shared with him the issues they’ve seen, from how high medical costs force patients into serious financial challenges to the confusion they’ve heard about how the system itself works.”
WXII: Former Gov. Cooper talks healthcare costs in Greensboro
Joshua Davis
- “One reason that I’m running for United States Senate is stuff just costs too much, and a large contributor [to] that is health care costs,” he said.
- “Just an increase in the copay to get a drug they need, or a doctor they see that can wreck their lives,” Cooper said. “Because then they’ve got to make a choice. They’ve got a rent bill, a utility bill staring them in the face, and then they’ve got this extra cost for health care, which should be something basic that people get.”
WFDD: U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper talks affordability in Greensboro on campaign trail DJ Simmons
- Cooper says his bipartisan success in passing Medicaid expansion in the state shows he’s equipped to tackle health care in Washington.
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