Rep. Angie Craig represents Minnesota’s Second Congressional District. She is fighting for working families - and for a Minnesota where every member of every family gets a fair shot. That means a future with lower health care costs and opportunities for career skills and technical training for 21st century jobs. She’ll work with anybody - and take on the Washington establishment - to get things done for her constituents.
Rep. Craig learned the value of hard work from her mother, a single mom who raised three children while earning her teaching degree. She too worked two jobs to help put herself through college. Years later, she moved to Minnesota and fell in love with the strong communities and quality of life. She and her wife Cheryl Greene have four sons – three who have already graduated from college or tech school and one who graduated from Rosemount High School in 2021 and is currently a college student. They lived in Eagan for nearly a decade and recently moved to Prior Lake. Angie attends church in Apple Valley and is a Rotarian who has served on several local community boards over the years. She is a small business investor, the former head of Global HR and Corporate Relations for a major Minnesota manufacturer, and a former newspaper reporter.
The fact that so many Minnesotans, especially those living in our rural communities, are not able to access or afford the health care they need is simply unacceptable. The United States spends more on prescription drugs than any other country in the world – while our pharmaceutical companies continue to rake in record-breaking profits. It is my belief that every single Minnesotan, no matter their zip code or income level, should be able to access high-quality, affordable health care and prescription drugs. And since my first day in Congress, it has been my top priority to achieve exactly that.
In Congress, I have worked closely with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, local health leaders and my Rural Health Advisory Council to reduce the cost of health insurance, including premiums and out-pocket costs while implementing long-term solutions to improve the quality of care in this country.
I successfully pushed the White House to take action to end the “family glitch,” a longstanding gap in the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace which left 62,000 Minnesotans paying more than they should for their health insurance premiums. I was also proud to introduce and ensure House passage of my bill, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would require private insurance companies and Medicare to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 per month. I’m also working hard to enact other important reforms - like finally allowing Medicare to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs for older Americans.
I know our work to lower costs and expand access to health care is far from over. The challenges in our health care system are urgent – and it’s long past time we came together to eliminate the disparities that too often plague our country.