NEW: Sarah Trone Garriott Pushes Government-Run Healthcare
If elected, Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott wants a socialist government takeover of healthcare.
Her recent comments at a press conference came under scrutiny for promoting a socialist vision that expands Washington’s control over healthcare, putting D.C. bureaucrats in charge of medical decisions and making it harder for Iowans to access quality, affordable healthcare.
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Sarah Trone Garriott Is Running for Congress in Iowa, and She Wants Socialized Medicine for All
Townhall
Amy Curtis
July 13, 2026
Democrats, including the Democratic Socialists of America, are back on the Medicare for All train, and in a big way. Citing the failures of Obamacare — which was passed by Democrats without a single Republican vote — which led to rising healthcare costs, they want to make America’s innovative and successful healthcare system a socialist disaster like Canada and the U.K.’s.
In Iowa, State Senator Sarah Trone Garriott is running for Congress on a platform that would include enacting socialist medicine and has even dismissed the current employer-based private insurance system as outdated.
“We can work together to provide some kind of public option to make sure that everyone’s covered, while expanding the opportunities within the existing programs, too,” Trone Garriott said at an event.
Trone Garriott also wants to expand Medicare to younger voters, telling a reporter, “I think there’s room to expand down” from the current age bracket covered by Medicare.
Most alarmingly, Trone Garriott doesn’t like the current employer-based system of private health insurance.
“Having health insurance tied to your employment, that was a World War II innovation that was really about just trying to recruit people for jobs, and that’s not really where it should be,” she said.
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Sarah Trone Garriott is a far-Left progressive who wants a socialist government takeover of healthcare, one that would expand Washington’s power over life and death decisions, giving bureaucrats in Washington the final say in our healthcare choices. This would make it harder for Iowans to access quality, affordable healthcare.
“Sarah Trone Garriott’s healthcare agenda comes straight out of the socialist playbook,” said NRCC Spokeswoman Emily Tuttle. “While Iowans want lower costs and more choices, Sarah Trone Garriott wants to expand government-run healthcare and put Washington bureaucrats in charge of Americans’ medical decisions.”