Florida Left Us

Elijah Manley vows to protect us.

There’s a number that defines exactly what neglect looks like in FL-20: 17.1%.

Nearly one in five people in our community are one diagnosis, one accident, one emergency away from financial ruin. And Florida’s politicians have looked the other way for years.

Elijah Manley knows this number isn’t just a statistic. He’s lived it. Raised in Fort Lauderdale’s historic Sistrunk community without electricity, without reliable food, and without access to consistent healthcare, he understands what it means to fall through the cracks of a system that was never built for families like his. As a substitute teacher, a grassroots organizer, and a lifelong progressive running for Congress in FL-20, he’s done watching this district get left behind.

The broken system families in District 20 are navigating every single day looks like this:

1. 150,000 residents in FL-20 are on Medicaid, and Florida keeps refusing to expand it.

2. Medical debt is bankrupting working families and destroying their credit scores.

3. Prescription drug costs are so high that people are skipping doses just to survive.

4. Black men in our community are dying at disproportionate rates from preventable conditions.

All of this is the direct result of decades of political decisions that chose insurance companies over people.

Elijah’s plan is bold and it’s built specifically for FL-20. He’ll fight to cosponsor Medicare for All, cancel medical debt, cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 a year out of pocket, and push for legislation that forces Florida to accept federal Medicaid dollars when the Governor won’t.

If you believe FL-20 deserves better, help us build the campaign that’ll make it happen today.

There’s one part of Elijah’s healthcare platform that deserves its own spotlight: his commitment to Black men’s health.

The Democratic Party has taken Black men for granted for far too long. Black men in FL-20 are facing a quiet crisis: higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, prostate cancer, and mental health challenges, all compounded by a healthcare system that too often dismisses them entirely.

Elijah isn’t tiptoeing around it.

❌ It shouldn’t be normal for Black men to die younger because of systemic neglect.
❌ It shouldn’t be normal for a doctor’s office to be the last place a Black man feels safe.
❌ It shouldn’t be normal for mental health stigma to go unchallenged in our communities.

In Congress, Elijah will introduce legislation to establish a National Black Men’s Health Initiative and a White House Office of Black Men’s Health. He’ll fight for culturally competent clinics, scholarships to bring more Black men into mental health professions, and a federal agency empowered to investigate and act on medical racism.

This is a moral statement about whose lives this country is willing to fight for. District 20 deserves a representative who understands that healthcare isn’t a privilege for the lucky few. It’s a human right, and it’s time Washington started treating it like one.

Help us send Elijah Manley to Congress. Support the people’s campaign today.

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