Kelly’s childhood in Dickinson, North Dakota, inspired in him a passion for the outdoors. In the summers, he could be found on Lake Sakakawea and during the fall he was bow hunting in the badlands.
After graduating from Dickinson High School in 1995, Kelly attended the University of North Dakota but continued to grow his roots in Dickinson, returning home in the summers to coach the Dickinson Roughriders American Legion baseball team. Kelly earned a bachelor’s degree from UND in 2001 and a law degree from UND law school in 2003.
Healthcare is one of the most important issues in our country right now. Costs keep going up, putting access to quality care out of reach for too many Americans. The result is fewer people seeing their family doctor until an emergency arises, putting their lives in danger and further increasing costs.
Unfortunately, actions taken by the federal government over the last decade have only contributed to the problems facing healthcare. Laws like the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, implemented a top down, one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare and coupled it with crippling regulations on both healthcare providers and insurers.
The result: Premiums more than doubled between 2013 and 2017, according to a study of healthcare markets.
Congressman Armstrong is working to fix healthcare by sending decision-making back to the states, which are closest to the people, and by putting patients and doctors in charge of care, not bureaucrats and politicians.