Mike Garcia in 2020 House CA elections

On Budget & Economy: COVID: help businesses & unemployed

Garcia: My efforts have been focused on supporting programs to assist our businesses to keep operating and keep their employees on the payroll. For those that are unemployed, I will continue to vote for federal unemployment insurance supplements to aid laid-off workers. I'll be reviewing additional tax reform to jump-start our economy and return it to the robust growth and full employment we enjoyed prior to the COVID pandemic.

On Health Care: Maintain integrity of Medicare; against Medicare for All

Garcia: The majority of seniors insure medical costs not covered by Medicare with supplemental insurance plans. Simply cutting benefits to address fiscal challenges won't reduce costs to seniors. Medical billing transparency and prescription drug cost reform and upfront pricing are attainable objectives to manage costs and maintain the fiscal integrity of Medicare. Efforts to expand Medicare to cover all Americans are misguided and fiscally unsustainable.

Q: Your prescription drug policy?

Garcia: Medical billing transparency and prescription drug cost reform are obtainable objectives to manage the cost and maintaining the fiscal integrity of Medicare.

Christy Smith: We need to make sure that we are tying what we spend here to an international prescription drug reference pricing, so that we know that we're not paying huge and disproportionately out-of-line costs here for our prescription drugs compared to what they are paying in other countries.

On Social Security: A contract that we absolutely must honor

Garcia: Social Security is a contract with Americans that we absolutely must honor. Seniors should never be concerned the benefits they paid for during their working years are at risk due to government budgetary policies or cuts. The fiscal integrity of our federal budgets must be addressed outside of the existing commitments to the Social Security program, now and for future retirees. We must meet this obligation.