Single Payer System
We must urge Congress to support full funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide coverage to millions of uninsured children and bring America closer to quality, affordable health care for all.
Americans deserve universal health care, but the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry, will continue to spend billions of dollars on public relations every year to sidetrack the movement.
After WW II, the industrialized world embarked on a health care experiment. America decided to keep the status quo and provide health care under the capitalist theory that free market forces would produce the highest level of care at the lowest cost. The rest of the industrialized world, most of which had been bombed into disarray during WW II chose a form of government-sponsored health care.
The European countries provide higher quality care for all of their people at roughly half the cost of our government. Privatization, initiated under the Reagan regime, is working to dismantle social programs and place them in private hands for the extraction of profit.
Fourteen years ago, Hillary Clinton tried to do something about the suffering caused by our very broken system. Since then 252,000 Americans have died prematurely as a result of not having insurance. Furthermore, the number one cause of bankruptcies and ensuing homelessness in the United States are medical bills.
Nobody in Canada, Britain, France or any of the other 24 top industrialized countries, ever goes bankrupt because of medical bills. Nobody ever loses their home. No one is ever denied because of a preexisting condition.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate for president advocating a non-profit single payer system. Voters must demand that their candidates for president come up with specific proposals that at their core non- profit, single payer, government-run system.
Americans deserve universal health care, but the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry, will continue to spend billions of dollars on public relations every year to sidetrack the movement.
After WW II, the industrialized world embarked on a health care experiment. America decided to keep the status quo and provide health care under the capitalist theory that free market forces would produce the highest level of care at the lowest cost. The rest of the industrialized world, most of which had been bombed into disarray during WW II chose a form of government-sponsored health care.
The European countries provide higher quality care for all of their people at roughly half the cost of our government. Privatization, initiated under the Reagan regime, is working to dismantle social programs and place them in private hands for the extraction of profit.
Fourteen years ago, Hillary Clinton tried to do something about the suffering caused by our very broken system. Since then 252,000 Americans have died prematurely as a result of not having insurance. Furthermore, the number one cause of bankruptcies and ensuing homelessness in the United States are medical bills.
Nobody in Canada, Britain, France or any of the other 24 top industrialized countries, ever goes bankrupt because of medical bills. Nobody ever loses their home. No one is ever denied because of a preexisting condition.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate for president advocating a non-profit single payer system. Voters must demand that their candidates for president come up with specific proposals that at their core non- profit, single payer, government-run system.
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