Health care must be viewed as a human right, not based on whether you can afford health insurance.
Our nation should provide quality health care just like the 14th Amendment guarantees free education for kids.
A recent survey found that 92 percent of adults think all Americans should have the right to affordable health care. A “Medicare For All,” single-payer system could easily be financed upfront through a progressive tax, so that people pay according to their means, not their health status.
Why should we keep paying for an inefficient, and increasingly unaffordable, system that is based on sacrificing people’s lives to ensure profit for health insurance and other medical industries?
Doctors are fed up with the bureaucratic hassles and meddling imposed on them by today’s private insurance system. National surveys of physicians show a huge shift toward support of a single-payer plan.
With doctors and the public on board, and a 75 percent approval rating for Medicare, it’s high time for single-payer health care.
It’s up to us to convince Congress that we need a system that gives everyone the best possible health care from the womb to the grave. A local group, intent on scrapping our private, for-profit insurance system, invites you to a gathering to discuss the facts and fiction of our current health care mess.
Bring your questions and concerns to a presentation on March 28 from 6 p.m to 8 p.m. at the Durango Public Library
Adele Brown
Bayfield
