A publicly-sponsored healthcare program should be available to people who cannot afford private insurance programs. The end goal is to establish a universal healthcare program that ensures everyone regardless of socioeconomic status. Dr. Ameena will support the Medicaid for All Act.

Dr. Ameena believes we need to invest in people and neighborhoods instead of cages. She will support legislation that will ensure humane treatment, including mental and physical healthcare, of men and women in the care of our jails and prisons. She will also advocate ending practices that criminalize communities like color, including the war on drugs and mandatory minimums.

The current climate crisis was caused by over a hundred years of human activity. We have only a few years now to take the necessary steps to save ourselves. When Dr. Ameena arrives in Washington, she will support the Green New Deal and End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021.

For Dr. Ameena, protecting the rights of homebuyers and renters is crucial to combat these inequalities. She supports a housing policy whose goal is to perpetuate social mobility for our low-income Americans and create a more equitable economy overall. She will fight for the Housing is a Human Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.

Dr. Ameena believes that the federal government can invest more in education and less in criminalization. That means supporting college debt relief and college for all. But it also includes investing in universal childcare and early learning for young kids.