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Activist
Campaign: Socialized Healthcare
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In order to promote a vision of,
and program for, free and comprehensive health care for all, the
National Committee of the Socialist Party USA has initiated a national
campaign for socialized health care.
The Socialist Party stands for a socialized health care system based on
universal coverage, salaried doctors and health care workers, and
revenue derived from a steeply graduated income tax.
A national health care
program with:
- Comprehensive
standard and alternative medical, dental, vision, and mental health
coverage for all.
- Publicly funded
through progressive taxation
- Controlled
by democratically elected assemblies of health care workers and
patients.
We call for a health care system that:
- Emphasizes preventive
care.
- Respects patients’
privacy and gives special attention to the needs of people with
physical or mental disabilities.
- Conducts treatment
and research unimpaired by sexism, racism, or homophobia.
We call for:
- Full funding for AIDS
research, prevention, and treatment.
- Public ownership and
worker and community control of the pharmaceutical industry.
- Educational programs
to help prevent drug addiction and for voluntary treatment programs for
addicts and alcoholics and for the availability of free, sterile
needles for those still using IV drugs.
- Reinstatement
of funding to community mental health services so that low-cost and
no-cost treatment is available on a voluntary basis, with clients’
rights respected. (We oppose involuntary incarceration for treatment
without due process).
National Strategy Conference
November 15th – 16th, 2008
 You are invited to join Healthcare-NOW! activists from
around the country to plan our 2009 strategy for winning national,
single-payer health insurance. By learning and sharing from one
another, we can build on the successes of the last year and develop the
plan to push the next administration to implement national,
single-payer health insurance NOW.
The movement supporting national single-payer healthcare reform is
approaching an historic moment for healthcare reform. Together we will
develop the plan to win true healthcare justice! Join us!
For more information about the 2008 National Strategy Conference, visit
our Conference
Page.
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