Bethany E Mann

Her campaign website says she supports Medicare for All, which it says would separate health coverage from employment and pay for primary care, mental health, dental, vision, women's health, emergency care and prescription drugs.^5,6,7

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

Her campaign website says Missourians voted overwhelmingly for Medicaid expansion and that the state's failure to expand Medicaid, together with corporate consolidation of medical centers, led rural hospitals to close or cut services.^5,6

Her campaign website says the government system under Medicare for All would be able to negotiate a set standard of fair prices with drug and insurance companies, as other developed countries do.⁵

Her campaign website says she would expand funding for child care in low-income areas, expand tax credits to child care workers and institutions, and make universal pre-K accessible to all families that want it.⁸

Her campaign website says companies that invest in manufacturing, particularly lean manufacturing, and manage their carbon footprint responsibly should receive tax incentives.⁹

Her campaign website says rural areas need high-quality broadband and that farmers need funding and access to reliable broadband internet.^9,10

Her campaign website says that rather than subsidizing big agribusiness, the government should help farmers get fair crop prices through loans for production costs, buying back crops when prices are low, and should pay farmers to conserve farmland.¹⁰

Her campaign website says purchases of Missouri land by foreign companies must be re-evaluated.¹⁰

Her campaign website says right-to-work is wrong for Missouri and that she will stand against any version of such legislation.¹⁰

Her campaign website says workers have a basic right to bargain collectively and to form or join a union, and that she supports the PRO Act and giving the National Labor Relations Board more enforcement power.^6,10

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

Her campaign website says Congress must pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.¹¹

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

Her campaign website says the Post Office should be strengthened and protected so that voters who cannot get to the polls on Election Day because of work, illness, travel or caregiving can vote by mail with confidence.¹¹

Her campaign website says gerrymandered districts, whether for the state legislature or Congress, do not represent voters and that gerrymandering must stop.¹¹

Her campaign website says the number of signatures needed for the initiative petition process should decrease so it is easier for voters to be involved directly in legislation.¹¹

Her campaign website says abortion is health care and that Missouri's trigger ban, which it says makes no exception for violence, pre-existing conditions or the mother's health, hurts families.⁶

Her campaign website calls for national standards that would stop what it calls extreme laws from limiting access to medical care, and says she supports the Women's Health Protection Act.⁶