The United States has failed to provide a basic social minimum to its citizens. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us just how cruel and irrational employer-based private insurance is, leaving millions of newly unemployed Americans without care when they needed it most. Americans get sicker, die younger, and pay more for their healthcare than any of their peers in comparable nations. Death and sickness are driven by the greed of private insurers, the indifference of easily corrupted politicians, and wall street speculation. They keep America sick to line their pockets. We do not have a private healthcare system; we have an illness industry. Care must not be a consumer good. No American should gamble with their life or live in fear of losing their benefits.
WE MUST
- Ensure that every person in America has comprehensive healthcare, with no co-pays, deductibles, or premiums -- we must abolish the illness industry.
- Work to prevent pharmaceutical companies from price gouging by permitting federal drug price negotiation.
- Heavily invest in the infrastructure of communities that have been left behind by the private healthcare system.
- Expand healthcare to cover eyes, ears, dental, and mental healthcare and institute non-punitive, publicly funded treatment for those with substance abuse disorders.
