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Over
40 million Americans have no health insurance or access to health care.
The overall costs of health care are escalating out of control. Huge
campaign contributions and resulting political power of the
pharmaceutical, health insurance and HMO companies force our politicians
to continue the present inadequate and failing system.
The solution is a single-payer, universal system administered by the
medical community – not by the government or the health insurance
companies. Our new political party platform calls for a system of
spending the present percentage of gross domestic product by the federal
government in grants to the states to administer a budgeted system
controlled by the medical profession.
The states would be given the power to negotiate with pharmaceutical
companies and other providers for lower prices. Imports from Canada and
elsewhere would be permitted.
While the government would pay more
out to the states than it now spends on health care, the total spent in
the country would remain the same as it is now. However, the savings to
business and individual buyers of health insurance would be tremendous.
Employers would no longer have the expense of providing health care for
employees, removing a constant source of labor disputes. The increase in
business profits would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Individuals would no longer have to pay the ever increasing cost of
health insurance premiums.
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