New Jersey: Practicing physician of Westfield, NJ, Dr. Tina Shah announced July 1, 2025, that she is launching her campaign to be elected to the US Congress from New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District. She wants “to put insurance companies and career politicians like Republican incumbent Tom Kean Jr. on notice that it is time to fix what is broken in our healthcare system and in Washington,” the Indian American candidate declared.
“I’m running for Congress because America is in critical condition and enough is enough,” said Dr. Shah. “As a physician I took an oath to first do no harm, but when I go to work in the Intensive Care Unit, I’m up against a system that is designed to make patients broke and sicker, prioritize insurance companies’ profits above all else, and burn out a workforce trying to save lives. Meanwhile, career politicians like Tom Kean Jr. are doing nothing to lower healthcare costs or expand access to care. Instead, he’s dodging his constituents while casting the deciding vote to gut Medicaid and attacking access to essential care, including abortion, in New Jersey.
Dr. Shah grew up in New Jersey and is a practicing physician triple board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. She has spent her career fighting for her patients' lives in the ICU and working to find solutions to improve patient outcomes in both the private sector and at the highest levels of government.
Now, she is running for Congress because New Jerseyans are paying too high a price for the failures of systems meant to serve them. Dr. Shah is challenging Republican incumbent Tom Kean Jr., who just cast the deciding vote in Congress for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history – all to fund more tax cuts for billionaires.
