Establish an improved "Medicare for All" single-payer public health program to provide everyone with quality health care. No co-pays, premiums or deductibles. Access to all health care services, including mental health, dental, and vision.
Include everyone, period.
Allow full access to contraceptive and reproductive care.
Expand women's access to "morning after" contraception by lifting the Obama Administration's ban.
Source: Stein-Baraka platform on 2016 presidential campaign website
, Aug 8, 2016
Thousands die each year when excluding from adequate care
The Green Party supports single-payer universal health care and preventive care for all. We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.
Our current health care system lets tens of thousands of people die each year by
excluding them from adequate care, while its exorbitant costs are crippling our economy. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national health care system.
Under a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system, the administrative waste of private insurance corporations would be redirected to patient care. In addition, people would gain the peace of mind in knowing that they have
health care they need. No longer would people have to worry about the prospect of financial ruin if they become seriously ill, are laid off their jobs, or are injured in an accident.
Address healthcare with state role, not just market
Before this [2008 economic] crisis, issues around housing, jobs, & health care were framed as issues that only the market could address. The state's role was to primarily facilitate market forces. Now questions that speak to the proper role of the state
are being raised. What is its role in ensuring that people have dignified lives? Does it have a responsibility to ensure that people have a place to lay their heads, food to eat, access to health care,effective educational institutions?
Source: Yes Magazine, "Age of Obama," by Tanya Dawkins
, Dec 15, 2009
