Healthcare
Our health and wellbeing cannot be subject to the whims of insurance companies. Currently, Bed-Stuy residents pay too much for health, vision, and dental insurance that often fails to deliver the care our families need. We need free, universal, and accessible care for every member of our community. This must include maternity care, reproductive healthcare, gender affirming care, abortion, and more for ALL New Yorkers.
Eon believes healthcare is a human right, and supports the New York Health Act, which would guarantee healthcare, free at the point of service, for every New Yorker. This act will also increase investment in our community's hospitals and clinics and ensure that everyone in our district has access to free, high-quality care close to home.
Abortion is healthcare, and healthcare is a human right. Eon believes New York must never waiver and continue to lead the way in providing reproductive healthcare on demand and without apology, while providing contraception, comprehensive sex education, STI prevention and care, and prenatal, pregnancy, and postpartum care.
Black people in Brooklyn are still far more likely to die in childbirth than white people on the Upper West Side, a result of centuries of systemic racism. Eon will push to fully fund Brooklyn's hospitals and modernize our maternity wards to correct this historic injustice and provide Brooklyn's families with the world-class care they deserve.
As a democratic socialist, Eon rejects all barriers to healthcare. He recognizes that gender-affirming care is healthcare, and believes that healthcare is a human right. As part of a broader push for true, universal healthcare via the New York Health Act, Eon will always fight to fund gender-affirming care and resist right-wing attempts to score political points by depriving our trans neighbors of the care they need.
Universal healthcare means truly universal—Eon will always work to ensure that no New Yorker is denied the care they need due to lack of funds, immigration status, language barriers, gender identity, or any other reason.