Key Points

 

Total Healthcare: Implementation of a Universal Healthcare system including dental, eye, and physical/mental health coverage. Mandate the inclusion of dental, eye, and healthcare in every plan issued by insurers who receive any federal funds.

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Power of  Unions: Union membership is half what it was 40 years ago. Union workers on average receive 20% higher wages than their non-union counterparts. Unions also have a downstream effect on the wages (10% increase) and benefits of non-union workplaces competing for workers. 80% of worker dissatisfaction is due to non-wage issues, a lack of healthcare benefits, paid leave, poor workplace safety, toxic atmospheres are primary drivers of worker dissatisfaction. Unions remedy those issue. 

 

Corruption: Halt the corruption, insider trading, and grifting within the Trump administration, and hold the perpetrators & collaborators accountable.

 

Affordability: Costs increase due to the monopolization of markets, which leads to collusion & price fixing. Strengthen and enforce anti-trust laws. Eliminate dynamic pricing. 

 

Data Protection: Every aspect of our lives is being designed to harvest our data, sell it, and then manipulate us with it. Legislation requiring explicit permission to collect our data is long overdue. 

 

AI: We are not responsible for subsidizing the cost of AI and data centers we don’t want. They need to provide their own power & water recycling facilities. Stop the implementation of domestic surveillance, and begin oversight & regulation of AI before it’s too late.

 

Corporate Welfare: In excess of $200 billion is spent on corporate welfare each year. Those funds should benefit us, not the oligarchs. That money could cover the tuition for every undergraduate attending a public university, with $50 billion remaining to fund trade schools. A skilled workforce benefits all!

 

Immigration: We’ve known the immigration system needs reform for decades, but the two parties prefer a wedge issue to campaign on. Reform & fully fund a humane immigration system that benefit our country. 

 

 

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Universal Healthcare is Affordable!

We've been told for far too long that providing universal healthcare is unaffordable. We're told the $3.8 trillion estimated cost would massively increase our national debt, and the interest would cripple us. $3.8 trillion is an incomprehensibly large number that is used to distract and divide us. The fact is, the $3.8 trillion does not represent new spending, but a reallocation.

The unaffordable argument implies that we have no current healthcare expenditures. In reality, we're already spending over $4.9 trillion on healthcare, while at the same time 40% of insured still incurred medical debt for their, or a family member's medical care.

I repeat, people with insurance are incurring medical debt while we currently spend $1.1 trillion more per year than universal healthcare would cost. I don't think that benefits me or you. Seems the status quo is only beneficial to those retaining the excess $1.1 trillion as profit. 

To put it in perspective, the $1.1 trillion in excessive healthcare spending is nearly equal to the $1.5 trillion total cost for Social Security last year.

Our current system relies on employers providing healthcare plans for which they cover the bulk of the premium expense, with the workers responsible for the remainder. For 2024 the average total premium expense for a family plan was $25,572 ($19,276 employer + $6,296 worker). It is ridiculous that we accept paying over $25,000 just for access to a plan, yet before benefitting we still have to reach deductibles averaging over $2,000 per individual and $4,000 per family.

I think we all agree this is unacceptable. 

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Dental Care is Healthcare!

Numerous studies have documented the link between oral health, heart health, and gut health. Despite the average family's health insurance plan costing $25,572, dental coverage is not included. Instead you might have a separate dental plan that provides meager benefits. It is ludicrous that we pay that much for health insurance and dental care is essentially an out of pocket expense that doesn't even count towards our deductible. Over $25,000 spent on premiums and before we actually receive any benefit we have to pay another $2,000-6,000 out-of-pocket to meet our deductible, yet that $1,200 crown does not count. I will mandate that dental coverage is included in every policy provided by health insurers receiving federal; subsidies!