Senate candidates debate healthcare, abortion, stocks

Republican candidates running for U.S. Senate in Georgia debated healthcare policies, access to abortion and congressional stock trading on Sunday.

The Atlanta Press Club hosted former football coach Derek Dooley, John Coyne, retired brigadier general Jonathan McColumn and Reps. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Mike Collins, R-Ga., for a debate centered on campaign issues ahead of early voting on Monday.

The candidates said there is an affordability crisis nationwide and called for expanded access to healthcare while lowering prices. Dooley called for greater price transparency in healthcare access.

“We need a lot of changes in our healthcare system as it relates to transparency, as it relates to putting patients and doctors first, and as it relates to innovation because the system we’re in now is not working,” Dooley said.

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