Candidates – Snyder County Democratic Committee

RAY BILGER

Measure economic success at the kitchen table, not just by GDP or the stock market.
Make sure paychecks keep up with groceries, housing, and everyday costs.
Help small businesses start, grow, compete, and hire locally.
Bring good paying jobs to PA-15 in manufacturing, defense, healthcare, cybersecurity, robotics, and emerging industries.
Invest in infrastructure, workforce training, and skilled trades.
Fight monopolies and excessive corporate concentration that hurt consumers and small businesses.
Demand fiscal responsibility, transparency, and independent oversight of taxpayer dollars.
Restore Congressional authority over spending and tariffs.
Create opportunities so young people don’t have to leave PA-15 to build a good life.
Bring opportunity home.

No one should have to choose between seeing a doctor and paying the mortgage.
Lower insurance premiums, deductibles, prescription drug costs, and out-of-pocket expenses.
Protect access to affordable health insurance coverage.
Defend Medicare and Medicaid.
Strengthen rural hospitals, maternity care, EMS, and local healthcare providers.
Address the shortage of doctors, nurses, and medical professionals in rural Pennsylvania.
Hold insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and private equity interests accountable when practices raise costs or reduce access.
Protect families from losing healthcare because they lose or change jobs.
Make sure rural communities aren’t left behind simply because of where they live.
Healthcare should be affordable and accessible not a financial crisis.

Protect family farms from being squeezed out by rising costs and corporate consolidation.
Pass the Agricultural Right to Repair Act so farmers can repair their own equipment.
Protect crop insurance and the farm safety net.
Make farm programs work for small and mid sized family farms, not disproportionately benefit the largest operations.
Rein in agricultural monopolies and strengthen competition.
Return major tariff decisions to Congress and provide greater accountability over trade policy.
Protect farmers from becoming collateral damage in trade disputes and sudden tariff changes.
Support the next generation of farmers and keep Pennsylvania farmland in production.
Make it easier for families to keep farms in the family rather than sell or shut down.
Pennsylvania agriculture should have a future measured in generations, not closures.