#M4A
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Raven's 10 Policy Platform for Good Governance in 2025, Independent of the Country:
1. Every citizen and documented immigrant should be guaranteed and be able to expect the government to do it's best to represent their needs and best interests as best as it possibly can to enable to maximum health, fulfillment, and enjoyment in life.
2. Universal Single Payer Healthcare, free at the point of service for all citizens and documented immigrants, and a buy in option for undocumented immigrants and visitors. (Basically Bernie Sander's Medicare For All Proposal)
3. Housing For All, make it free for all citizens and documented immigrants, and a right for them. Undocumented immigrants and visitors would need to pay for housing or seek temporary residence shelter status. (Closest to Cuba's housing model)
4. Free Public Transportation, free for all citizens and documented immigrants, undocumented immigrants and visitors can buy in, privatized and privatization of public transportation would be illegal.
5. Disabled Inclusion and Equity, Disabled citizens and documented immigrants have a right to self determination and independence so long as a group of 10 physicians and judge via a court ruling or criminal trial waiver as a result of insanity determine otherwise. Treatment of disabilities must be inline with best efforts and good faith to both improve the quality of the disabled citizen or documented immigrant's life and their health. Disabled citizens and documented immigrants who cannot provide the means of living for themselves will be cared for.
6. LGBTQ Rights, any number of people who can and do consent to a sexual, romantic, and/or marriage based relationship should have the right to do so and all the same amenities and legal affordances that any monogamous cisgendered heterosexual couple would have.
7. Free Universal Education, all education is free for citizens and documented immigrants: free tuition, free learning materials, free textbooks, and free basic needs. When you are a full time student, your job should be to learn. Getting into college and higher education is enough. This would ban the employment of students in full time attendance to any educational institution. Undocumented immigrants by being accepted to a specialty lower education institution or a higher educational institution of any type should be granted documentation and legal residency. Programs should be made to entice these immigrants to become citizens and stay after receiving their education.
8. Birth Right Citizenship, if you are born within a nation's borders, you should be entitled to citizenship of that nation.
9. Citizenship By Heritage, one ancestor of pure heritage or of citizenship of the land in the last 5 generations Can be done with birth records, adoption paperwork, or reputable DNA testing results.
10. Citizenship By Immigration & Assimilation, documented immigrants should be encouraged to assimilate, this should be done through free language courses and certifications and free culture courses and certifications. The formation of ethnic enclaves by immigrants should be fiercely discouraged, but families and friends must never be separated to achieve this goal. Voluntary sublimation of the immigrant population into the predominant and preexisting culture is the ultimate goal. Prospective immigrants without a criminal records and/or who are dodging the draft or oppression of any enemy nation and/or who are the victims of genocide(s) abroad, must be prioritized. Prospective immigrants personal finances should not matter in the immigration process. Becoming a documented immigrant should be simple and sensible and follow these guidelines.
Just know that if you donate and you allow it to send you updates it will email you Bible verses from time to time. I am not a fan of that part, but at least they let people raise money for this man’s legal defense unlike GoFundMe.
LOL... People actually think #trump can wave a magic wand and bring back #tiktok . Like they thought he was going to build the wall. Like people thought #berniesanders could wave a magic wand and make #m4a happen.
Between 100,000 and 200,000 Americans die each year from #PreventableIllnesses due to lack of #HealthCare coverage or to #ClaimsDenials or too-high #copays, and almost half of working-age Americans have #MedicalDebt. This is a corporate democide that cries out for justice. #M4A
Elon: “Shouldn't the American people be getting getting their money's worth?”
Bernie: “Yes.…We waste hundreds of billions a year on healthcare administrative expenses…We need Medicare for All.”
#M4A #Healthcare #BernieSanders #ElonMusk #UniversalHealthcare
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-healthcare
Common Dreams · Jayapal, Sanders Offer Answer to Elon Musk's Healthcare Cost Question | Common DreamsTwo critics of the for-profit health system urge Elon Musk to join the call for Medicare for All. With sky-high healthcare spending in the U.S., shouldn't Americans be getting their money's worth? Healthcare is a human right. We need Medicare for All. Join the movement to win healthcare for all! #MedicareForAll #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #JoinTheMovement
UnitedHealth CEO's killing unleashes social media rage against insurers
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/unitedhealth-brian-thompson-killing-health-insurers-social-media
"When you shoot one man in the street it's murder. When you kill thousands of people in hospitals by taking away their ability to get treatment you're an entrepreneur,"
Murder and Social Murder: The Case of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/murder-and-social-murder-the-case-of-unitedhealth-ceo-brian-thompson.html
UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/
How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients
https://pnhp.org/news/how-unitedhealth-harnesses-its-physician-empire-to-squeeze-profits-out-of-patients/
Title of Book About Insurance Companies Matches Bullet Casings at Crime Scene
https://www.thedailybeast.com/title-of-book-about-insurance-companies-matches-brian-thompson-bullet-casings-at-midtown-hilton/
The Coup, 5 Million Ways To Kill A C.E.O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxH414tGkA
#NBC #NightlyNews interviews the CEO of the maker of "Wegovy" & "Ozempic" weight loss drugs, asking why "it only costs $93 in the UK and over $1500 in the U.S.?" 
#Medicare4All #M4A #PublicOption
A generous UBI and M4A (or equivalent single payer healthcare) would lift so many out of poverty and would allow people to stop working without risking their housing or health.
OK. 1/2.
I have an opinion, and it is VITAL in this post to read what I actually say in it and not what I didn't say.
My opinion is:
Professionals, students, and everyone need to put the same exact energy into protesting for national health care (Medicare for All) and Universal Basic Income that they put into supporting Gaza.
Next post is a list of what I did NOT write.
So, Eric Topol thinks medical use of AI might reduce the rate of diagniostic errors, which apparently kill or permanently disable about 800,000 americans each year.
But another thing that might reduce the rate of diagnostic errors would be physicians spending more time with each patient (you know, listening to them, thinking about the patient's case history, doing a little research).
This, apparently is not an option, presumably because there is more money in forcing doctors to rush through each patient consultation and spend more time on insurance paperwork, and someone will be making more money from the AI systems.
In a better world (or even a better nation-state than the US), education would be free, including medical school, and we could have more doctors and no one would be trying to extract every last penny out of the medical-industrial complex.
But in a better world we would also not have let the latest pandemic run rampant and cause brain damage that surely only makes it harder for doctors to think.
#CovidIsNotOver
#SinglePayerNow
#UniversalHealthcare
#M4A
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/toward-the-eradication-of-medical
Continued thread
#introduction
#M4A
#MMT
#ClimateEmergency
40yrs IBEW (ret). Tail-end smash-and-grab generation, aka boomer.
Politics:
Anti-war.
Against ideology of capitalism as a social organizing force.
Laissez-faire codes violence, libertarianism is incoherent.
The people should not be servants of the economy.
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