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Health Care

We believe the right to quality health care is a basic human right. We advocate the establishment of a comprehensive national single-payer health care system in which health care would be publicly financed and privately delivered.
We Call For:
  • A national single-payer health care plan with privately-delivered services that cover all medically-necessary services;
  • A health care system where decisions are made by health care professionals, patients and their families and that provides patients the freedom to choose their providers;
  • Opposition to efforts to privatize Medicare;
  • Congress to establish a drug benefit program directly administered by the Medicare Administration with the authority to negotiate drug prices
  • Administration with the authority to negotiate drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies;
  • Until a national single-payer health care plan is established, full funding and expansion of veterans’ health programs, including necessary and appropriate support for their families;
  • A U.S. Food and Drug Administration that is independent of the pharmaceutical industry;
  • An effective plan of treatment and education to address this nation’s drug, alcohol and tobacco problems;
  • Effective funding of mental health treatment;
  • A comprehensive public health plan to educate and protect the public in the event of an epidemic;
  • A Patients’ Bill of Rights that protects the privacy of each patient’s medical history;
  • Restoration of funding and support for medical research, including expanded stem cell and fetal tissue research, based on scientific merit;
  • Mandatory availability of employer-sponsored healthcare benefits to partners of eligible LGBT employees until such time as we have a single-payer system;
  • Increased funding for mental health.