Support for universal healthcare and increased accessibility and quality have been staple issues for Congressman Thompson. With the introduction of the Minority Health and Healthcare Disparities Act, Thompson assumed the leadership on advancing these causes. He supports making childcare more affordable, prescription drugs less expensive, leave time more widely available and AIDS research - in the U.S. and in Africa - a top budgetary priority. Thompson is committed to increasing the number of African-American physicians in Mississippi. While over 35% of the state’s population is African-American, only 6.1% of the physicians are African-American. Congressman Thompson is fighting on several fronts to bring parity between these figures.
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