Healthy families are the foundation of strong communities. But across District 44, families are struggling to afford care, find providers, and get timely help when they need it most.

Katie Crosby believes healthcare should be accessible, affordable, and private, and she’s running to make sure every family in our community can get the care they deserve, close to home.

Healthcare Families Can Afford and Access

Healthcare costs are one of the biggest pressures on family budgets. Rising premiums, high deductibles, and prescription prices force families to make impossible choices, delaying care or skipping it altogether.

Katie believes healthcare is a basic need, not a luxury. Families shouldn’t have to drive across state lines to see a doctor, wait months for appointments, or fight insurance companies just to get care covered.

She will fight to:

• Lower premiums, copays, and out-of-pocket costs

• Cap the cost of life-saving medications like insulin

• Protect coverage for people with pre-existing conditions

• Increase transparency so families know what care actually costs

Healthcare should work for patients, not just insurance companies.

Expanding Access Through Medicaid and Community Care

South Carolina ranks near the bottom nationally for access to primary care, and too many families in District 44 fall into the gap, earning too much to qualify for help, but not enough to afford coverage.

Katie supports expanding Medicaid to:

• Cover working families, veterans, seniors, and new parents

• Protect rural hospitals and local providers

• Reduce emergency-room backlogs and long wait times

• Keep families from driving hours for basic treatment

She will also invest in free clinics and community healthcare programs that provide preventative care and save lives.

Women’s Healthcare Is Healthcare

Women in District 44 deserve access to real healthcare, yet there isn’t a single OB-GYN serving this district. That means women are forced to travel out of the district and sometimes cross state lines for prenatal care, cancer screenings, contraception, and reproductive healthcare.

Katie believes:

• Medical decisions belong to women and their doctors, not politicians

• Access to abortion, contraception, IVF, prenatal care, and screenings must be protected

• Pregnancy and childbirth should be safer, especially for women of color who face higher risks

• Survivors of rape, incest, and domestic violence deserve real access to care and support

She will fight to recruit OB-GYNs and women’s health providers, protect patient privacy, enforce HIPAA, and ensure that healthcare remains safe, legal, and accessible.

Children’s Mental Health Can’t Wait

Our children are facing a mental-health crisis. Rates of depression and anxiety are rising, suicide rates have increased, and families are waiting months for help, if they can get it at all.

Katie believes mental health is just as important as physical health, especially for kids.

She will fight to:

• Expand mental-health coverage for children through Medicaid and private insurance

• Fully fund school-based mental-health professionals, not just guidance counselors

• Reduce waitlists by increasing pay and training pipelines for child therapists

• Provide crisis-response training for teachers and school staff

• Protect children from losing care mid-treatment due to paperwork or red tape

Healthy kids grow into healthy adults, and strong communities depend on both.

Putting Families Before Politics

For more than twenty years, Republican leadership in South Carolina has blocked Medicaid expansion, restricted reproductive healthcare, and underfunded mental-health services, even as costs rise and access disappears.

Katie Crosby believes it’s time for leadership that:

• Trusts families and medical professionals

• Prioritizes care over ideology

• Expands access instead of creating barriers

Healthy families don’t happen by accident. They happen when leaders choose people over politics.