Health Care
Health Care
- I support universal health care with guaranteed treatment regardless of age, ability to pay, employment, or prior medical condition, and with choice of doctors and hospitals. This should be paid for by rolling existing state and federal health care funding into one program and adding a 3 to 5 percent payroll tax on employers.
- Alternatively, I would support the choice to use these same sources to fund cash-only, non-insurance health care plans like Simple Care together with catastrophic health insurance.
- I would support incentivizing health by, for example, taxing junk foods.
- I support returning control of birthing to women, including midwives, labor and delivery nurses, doulas, childbirth educators, and female gynecologists and nurse practitioners.
- I support the de-medicalizing of birth and women’s right to determine how and where they will birth to include home birth with midwives, birthing centers, hospital birth or unassisted birth.
- I oppose compulsory immunizations for newborns
