Rural Healthcare | Gregory Burgess for Congress | CA-2
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The Issues · Rural Healthcare
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Healthcare Close to Home
Across All of CA-2

If you need a cardiologist in Trinity County, you drive three hours. If you need a psychiatrist in Modoc County, you may wait six months. CA-2's nine counties have some of the worst rural healthcare access in California. These five bills address the clinics, the providers, the veterans, the families, and the infrastructure to change that.

5
Healthcare
Bills
9
Counties
Served
$0
Added to
Deficit
3+
Hrs Driven to
Specialists
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3hrs
Drive to a cardiologist
from Trinity County
9
Counties with
healthcare deserts
$57B
Annual GDP lost to
lack of childcare
30+
Years behavioral health
experience — Greg Burgess
The Challenge

Rural Healthcare Is A Rights Issue.

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Provider Shortage

Doctors and nurses don't work in rural areas because student loan debt makes it financially impossible. CA-2 counties lose providers to urban centers every year. The fix is not complicated: pay off loans for anyone who serves rural communities.

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Telehealth Infrastructure

You shouldn't have to drive three hours for a follow-up appointment. Telehealth works — but only if the broadband works. These bills fund both: the infrastructure and the clinical networks that use it.

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Behavioral Health

Addiction, mental health crises, and trauma don't wait for a clinic to open. CA-2 has among the highest rates of substance use disorder in California. These bills treat behavioral health as healthcare — not a criminal matter, not a moral failure.

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Veterans & Aging

CA-2 has a large veteran population and an aging rural demographic. Both groups need healthcare that comes to them — not healthcare 90 miles away. These bills fund mobile clinics, aging-in-place services, and veteran-specific healthcare pathways.

The Legislation

Five Bills. Every Word Public.

Fully drafted healthcare legislation for CA-2's nine counties. Constitutional authority cited. Funding sources named. Sunset clauses included. Read them before you vote.

Primary · Rural CA-2
North Coast & Redwood Country Healthcare Empowerment and Community Flourishing Act
The centerpiece rural healthcare bill. Pays off student loans for doctors, nurses, and behavioral health providers who serve rural CA-2 communities — Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity, and beyond. Creates forgivable SBA loan programs for rural clinic construction. Funds telehealth infrastructure and mobile clinic networks for every county.
Loan payoff for rural providers · Mobile clinics · Telehealth
 Rural Infrastructure
Rural Prosperity & Security Act
Broadband for every home in rural CA-2 — because telehealth doesn't work without connectivity. Manages water security. Funds affordable insurance programs. Tackles the full infrastructure stack that rural healthcare depends on. No telehealth mandate without a broadband mandate to back it up.
Broadband mandate · Telehealth infrastructure
 Families & Childcare
American Families Act
Childcare tax credits near where you live and work. Paid parental leave for small businesses. Financial aid for student parents. Community health component ensures pediatric and maternal healthcare access in underserved CA-2 communities. Firewall that protects Social Security from cuts.
Childcare access · Maternal health · Social Security firewall
 Veterans Health
All-Volunteer Force Renewal Act
Strengthens benefits and mental health support for the veterans of CA-2's large military-adjacent communities. Creates real commitments to post-service healthcare. Funds community-based veteran service networks so veterans don't have to travel to access care they earned.
Veterans first · Mental health support
 Community Health
CA-2 CAFE-CH Act — Community Health Component
The community health provisions of the CA-2 omnibus bill. Senior independence and aging-in-place services: keeping elders in their communities. Behavioral health: addiction, mental health, and crisis intervention treated as healthcare — not criminal matters. Voluntary universal Medicare eligibility: no one forced, no one denied.
Aging-in-place · Voluntary Medicare · Behavioral health

"I spent 30 years in behavioral health. I know what it means when your rural clinic closes. I know what it means to drive children to school on roads that haven't been repaved in twenty years. Healthcare in rural CA-2 is not a partisan issue — it's a basic question of whether the government is doing its job."

— Gregory Burgess, Candidate for CA-2 · CDC Quarantine Officer · 30 Years Behavioral Health · R.O.A.R.

These Bills Are Already Written

Every bill on this page is fully drafted, publicly available, and ready for the first day of the 120th Congress. No promises — actual legislation.

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