The Doctor Will See You Now
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The Doctor Will See You Now
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The Central Valley has a healthcare problem and Washington keeps sending politicians.
In this episode of Blue Dog Radio, we sit down with Dr. Jasmeet Bains, a practicing family physician, current California State Assemblymember, and Blue Dog candidate for Congress in CA-22. Here we talk about what it looks like to serve a community that’s been overlooked for too long.
Before politics, Bains was treating patients in rural clinics across the Central Valley. People without insurance. Families losing coverage. Communities trying to hold it together while the system fails them.
This isn’t a conversation about healthcare in theory. It’s about what happens when it breaks in real life.
We get into her path from selling cars at her family’s dealership to becoming the only doctor in a rural town, what she’s learned serving in the Assembly, and the vote by Rep. David Valadao that ultimately pushed her to run for Congress.
At one point, she puts it plainly: “This is a life and death problem here.”
This is a different kind of candidate and a different kind of conversation.