Without life, there can be no chance for liberty and no pursuits of any kind. Therefore, we recognize healthcare as a human right that must be protected if others are to ever be freely exercised. These truths become ever more self-evident in dire times such as our own and the duty to secure this right becomes most crucial.

Anything less than enacting universal healthcare is sentencing many to perish and more to suffer. This unnecessary suffering exists to maintain high profits for a select few. It will always be more profitable to treat sickness instead of cure it, and to insure the healthy instead of those who need care. This makes it impossible for markets to create sensible or efficient healthcare systems. The U.S. pays the most for healthcare worldwide, but receives some of the worst outcomes. We must transition to people-first healthcare, leaving the market out of our doctors offices and medical decisions.

We reject bad-faith notions that we lose any meaningful choices in transitioning away from private healthcare. Our insurance plans are chosen by our workplaces. Our doctors are chosen by pre-selected “networks.” Our covered treatments and prescriptions are limited by the ever shifting policies aiming to lower costs and push out high-risk members. The system bottlenecks after deductibles are met, creating long waits for care. Obamacare siphoned working class money into private insurers' hands while forcing us into the same overpriced and insufficient plans. A “Public Option” will pool high-risk individuals into plans with high costs, while private competitors will profit from forcing the risk onto taxpayers. In the same way a casino gives choices, insurers have stacked the odds in favor of the house, only it’s our health being gambled with. The only answer is to flip the tables.

Medicare for All

Medicare for All will give us the freedom to choose our doctors, providers, services, and even to buy supplemental private insurance. It can also protect these freedoms from being held hostage by our employers, insurance companies, politicians, or any form of bureaucratic testing. 

We believe that we can secure our right to life and so promise to tirelessly fight for a Medicare for All plan that at minimum provides:

1. Universal coverage for everyone, under a single federal health insurance program, without exceptions.

2. Full coverage of all services (Medical/Dental/Vision/Mental/Reproductive) with freedom to choose your doctors.

3. Dedicated public funding of the program, ensuring it is always fully free at the point of service, with no fees, no copays, no deductibles, no premiums, and no surprise bills.

4. Equal access to all medical services and treatments, with protections from insurance companies, politicians, bureaucrats, or others that threaten to come between you and your health needs.

5. Job priority and severance for those whose livelihoods may be affected by the transition away from privatized health insurance.

A Pandemic Response for the People

The pandemic revealed who really ran America: the essential workers. These were not only healthcare workers but also grocery store clerks, waste management professionals, and anyone else who had to show up to an actual workplace to keep the community running and humming. Adding insult to injury, our government has repeatedly abandoned working people, choosing to instead direct aid primarily towards the wealthy and powerful, most notably during the 2008 financial crisis and the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The year 2024 saw wildfires rage outside LA, record heat across the Southwest, and hurricane flooding wipe out small towns in interior North Carolina. The United States must design a blanket crisis response ahead of time that can apply to all crises, whether financial, climate, pandemic, war, or otherwise.

We believe we must unite and fight to secure the following demands:

1. A moratorium on all evictions, foreclosures,and rent and debt collections with no penalties or interest accruing.

2. A monthly survival payment to all citizens of $2,000 dollars retroactive to March 2020.

3. An expansion of Medicare to cover everyone needing medical services during the pandemic.

4. A jobs protection act to ensure that all businesses receiving government loans protect the positions of workers who must stay home to care for family, or due to considerations of public and personal safety.