Eric Sorensen in 2022 Congressional Ballotpedia analysis

On Health Care: Access for everyone to quality and affordable health care

• Strengthening health care: Eric believes that everyone should have access to quality and affordable health care.
• Eric supports protecting and improving the Affordable Care Act to ensure health care coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. He supports allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices to lower costs and the creation of a public option to expand access to coverage.
• Health care is an equity issue for Eric. Students can't focus in school and people can't focus on making a living when they don't feel well, either physically or mentally. We need to be setting people up for success, and quality, affordable health care is essential to providing opportunity for all.

On Health Care: Elect scientists to Congress to fight vaccine disinformation

1. I was a TV news meteorologist for 22 years, earning community trust and keeping people safe by telling the truth. We need more trust between Congress and the people, and I'll work to rebuild trust by looking out for people just like when I was the local weatherman.
2. I dedicated my career to discovering the truth and keeping people accurately informed. The pandemic, vaccine disinformation, and ongoing climate crises show that it's more important than ever to elect scientists to Congress. We need more science leadership to keep people informed, not political partisanship.
3. In Congress, I will continue to stand up for vulnerable communities, and I will fight to protect the rights of all people against discrimination

On Energy & Oil: Climate change is real, from drought to summer derecho

A: Climate change: Early in his career, Eric started discussing climate change with his viewers when it was not a popular thing to do. To him, it isn't political; his job as a meteorologist is to speak the truth. In Central and Northwest Illinois, we know that climate change is real -- whether it was the 2021 summer drought or, the August 2020 derecho with 100 miles per hour winds, or the record-high Mississippi River flood of 2019. And as the water was rising, it was people coming together from all walks of life to fill sandbags that protected our small businesses. There is not a single climate communicator in Congress who matches the communication and climate science backgrounds of Eric.