A Special Message To All Voters

We all can see that our current Congress is at a stalemate, our leaders are literally fighting on the Congress floor, and Congress can't even agree on funding the basic needs of the government. Meanwhile, we see that the loans and mortgages we need to fund our farms, our businesses, our cars and our homes are higher than they've been in 20 years, that we can't find a doctor who has more than 10 minutes to spend with us, that we can't afford home care for our elderly, that our schools are struggling to stay funded, that both our police and our citizens feel threatened, that our world is at war, and that our poor are starving while we create billionaires every day. There must be a better way to work together and make the progress that this country needs. We need to talk to one another, we need to unite; and that starts with the commitment to listen and learn from one another.

I pledge to represent you and your needs. I'm running for Congress to represent you and work with other members of government to make progress—regardless of their political affiliation. We need to shake loose the deadlock, and I intend to shine a beacon on how that can be done.

My journey as a physician and businessman led me to Washington, where I worked with a bipartisan group of policymakers to advocate for Congressional bills that encourage the adoption of telemedicine and other technologies. I met with more than 200 congresspeople and senators and their staff, from both sides of the aisle, and even testified before Congress as an expert. This collaborative effort resulted in a blueprint for decreasing healthcare costs and improving quality and access—and when the pandemic hit, that blueprint proved invaluable. 

There’s a tendency these days to demean our institutions: from our schools, law enforcement, scientists to our military. No place has taken more criticism—and much of it deserved—than Washington DC. But DC, just like our schools, law enforcement, scientists and military is made up of people, most of whom are trying to do the right thing, and all of them are doing it in the hallowed tradition of honorable Americans who walked before them. 

When I walked those halls of Congress, I saw it as a privilege. A privilege to speak for those who couldn’t advocate for themselves, and utilize that privilege to make the halls of power work for the people it was designed to work for.  There are no politicians against better care at lower cost, there just hadn’t been loud enough voices calling for what needed to be done. We need innovation in Congress—not cynicism, we need collaboration—not partisanism. We need new voices to lead us to solutions, and if you elect me to represent you in Congress, I will work with the people of Indiana to give all of us a voice in DC.