Kara Eastman, the Democratic nominee in Nebraska's Second Congressional District, tells a story while campaigning about visiting her mother while she was dying from cancer. Her mother's medicals bills were stacked so high on the kitchen table, Eastman says, that when she visited, they couldn't see each other through the piles. Just one of her mother's pills cost $2,500 a month.
Eastman decided to run for Congress to offer alternatives to the skyrocketing cost of health care. She campaigns calling for Medicare for All and further solutions to the crisis of unaffordable prescription drugs. Her message is resonating. She beat a well-known opponent in her primary by a few hundred votes.
