Real Socialized Health Care
The Affordable Care & Patient Protection Act, which President Obama and Congress fashioned after Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts legislation:
- Does NOT contain a real “public option” for people to buy a health insurance policy from the government
- Will force people who currently can’t afford to buy health insurance to get a policy and fine them if they don’t
- Makes women get a separate private health care policy to cover abortion-only to protect themselves if they need to terminate a pregnancy
- Guarantees high profits for the insurance industry as the net result
If you feel like you’ve been sold out by the Democratic Party on everything it promised in the 2008 election, you’re not alone. The Democrats even took “single payer” health insurance proposals off the table before the debate even began, which at least would have reduced insurance company profits.
Our campaign supports the National Health Service Act, which was originally introduced in Congress by then-Rep. and now Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and later by Rep. Barbara Lee.
The Health Service Act would create a community based national health service. The Act would create a nationally-funded network of regionally-planned, community-based prepaid health plans. The system would be nationally-funded, so that inequalities among communities would not prevent the equitable provision of health services. Residents in every community in the land would have access to the system. They could go to the service providers nearest to them, or to any others within the national system. The system would be regionally-planned, so that services would be available to each community with every region on a rational and equitable basis.
No one wants a large, unaccountable bureaucracy running our medical care system. An elected Community Health Board would administer the local health institutions and the health advocate for the community. 50% of the board would be elected by the residents and 50% of the board would be elected by the workers in the facility.
That’s democracy in action. REGISTER PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY and VOTE FOR Roseanne and Jan, The Team with a Plan!
Federal Elections Commission ID # C00579748, Roseanne & Jan The Team With a Plan
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