Sentences with phrase «for single payer healthcare»

It's fine if you want to argue for single payer healthcare.

In the interview he talks of needing guns to protect ourselves from tyranny and a paragraph later is calling for single payer healthcare and at one point saying to let all immigrants in.

Not exact matches

Create a single payer healthcare system just like they have for House & Senate members so that as a nation we can negotiate less expensive medical costs & prescription drugs and limit the amount any provider / hospital / doctor can be sued to $ 500k.

Why?For one thing because we don't have single payer universal healthcare like all other civilized countries.Wake up and stop watching Fox News and listening to crooked politicians who are stoodges for the insurance companies.

«He understands our crisis in healthcare and is for a single payer system.

There's also a list called Levy's «10 shades of blue» that details all the things the country executive did to support Democratic candidates and / or positions, noting, for example, his backing of single - payer healthcare and early endorsement of former Long Island Assemblyman - turned - state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's first statewide run this year.

Rachel is also a grassroots progressive leader, active in groups including Uplift Syracuse, the CNY Solidarity Coalition, and the Campaign for New York Health, which advocates for a single - payer healthcare system across New York State.

«We need Medicare - for - all, single - payer healthcare,» she said.

Instead, the Campaign for NY Health and other organizations are pushing a single - payer healthcare plan.

Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, the prime advocate of single - payer healthcare in the legislature, agreed that single - payer healthcare is picking up support: «every day the news from Washington makes the need for and support of the bill stronger.»

He supported the «Medicare for All» single - payer healthcare plan touted by Sanders, and wanted to close many overseas military bases and use the savings to pay an annual dividend check to working - class Americans.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

If you are a progressive in the city, and wonder why New York can't have single - payer healthcare, grow its stock of rent - regulated apartments, or offer tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, you can blame Senate Republicans.

What we are headed for under AHCA will be a disaster and will pave the way for single payer with healthcare being considered a right for all people.

«To further our unity solution for the New York State Senate and define each other's position, there is no doubt all Democrats agree that a united Democratic delegation will take up a progressive agenda including such items as the Dream Act, GENDA, single payer healthcare, the Reproductive Health Act, campaign finance reform, the Contraceptive Care Act among other progressive initiatives that have been, or may be advanced.

The council has chosen to back the passage of the New York Health Act, a bill calling for a single - payer healthcare system for all state residents.

For the third year in a row, a bill is traveling through the New York legislature with the goal of creating a statewide single - payer healthcare system — more commonly known as «universal healthcare.»

Nixon has said that if elected, she would end cash bail, legalize marijuana, increase funding for education and seek to establish a single - payer healthcare system.

An evening vote on a bill to establish a single - payer healthcare system dragged on when a number of supporters who had left for dinner needed to be brought back to the chamber before it could receive a majority.

Hawkins is calling for a «Green New Deal» that includes public jobs for the unemployed, single - payer healthcare, a ban on fracking and a 100 percent clean - energy future.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

His Green New Deal platform called for jobs for the unemployed, single - payer healthcare, as well as banning fracking and committing to 100 percent clean - energy use by 2030.

Hawkins explained in great detail his vision laid out in his second campaign for Governor in 2014, where he called for a «Green New Deal,» including public jobs for the unemployed, single - payer healthcare, a ban on fracking, and a 100 percent clean - energy future.

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., and Richard Blumenthal, D - Conn., are among 16 Senate Democrats who've declared support for Vermont Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders» «Medicare for All» single payer healthcare insurance bill.

Other topics Epstein wants to tackle in Albany include more funding for public schools, strengthening gun control laws and establishing a single - payer healthcare system.

However, the threat to repeal Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, is fueling a push for single - payer healthcare in New York.

The Manhattan lawmaker, who has long called for single - payer healthcare in the state, cited an email he received from the New York City Mayor's Office recruiting people to help dig out from Winter Storm Stella for $ 15 per hour.

Hawkins supports banning fracking, ending the war on drugs and providing healthcare for all through a universal, Single Payer system.

«We will run against Assembly Democrats in 2016 who don't vote for a ban on fracking and single - payer healthcare, or who don't force the leadership to put them up for a vote,» Hawkins said.

He also wants the state to enact a single - payer universal healthcare system, which would lower over health care costs by more than $ 50 billion annually while ending the need for counties to use the property tax to pay for Medicaid.

Free market enthusiasts will deny that it can, just as they deny that a national government can construct a workable single - payer system for healthcare.

As for your desire for healthcare to be factored into the fossil fuel costs, that is more of guilt propaganda than logical argument.They certainly could not be used for subsidy arguments as the government doesn't pay for all those healthcare costs (we're not a single - payer socialist system in America).

Her bio lists as healthcare topics she had addressed «the false promise of a single - payer system as exists in Canada, pharmaceutical pricing, solving the problem of the uninsured, and strategies for consumer - driven health care.»