WHY IT IS NEEDED: Currently, more than 40 million US citizens are without health care.   Exactly how many additional people will be covered and at what cost to them by President Obama's "reform" of privatized health care remains to be seen.  What is known is that the United States is the only country in the western industrialized world that does not have universal health care.  Yet notably, even a poor Third World nation such as Cuba has universal health care for both its citizens as well as any citizen which visits that country.  The time has come for us to recognize the health of our citizens as a fundamental human right.

HOW IT WILL BE DONE:  We propose universal health care coverage for every citizen of the United States.  In the US we spend more money on health care, some $8,000 dollars per person (about half public and half private), than any other country in the world.   Canada, which unlike the United States does have universal health coverage, spends roughly $4,500 dollars per person for universal health care coverage.  Thus, the majority of the money for universal health care in the United States is already in our federal, state, and local budgets.  For the US, it is more a question of reducing the fees that health care providers charge, reducing the cost of prescription medications, and dismantling the health care insurance industry.