WeCare Universal Health Care People's Act 2020

High time we focused on Comprehensive Health Care for People, Planet and Animals. Add Your Voices as We Prepare a People's Act as an ALTERNATIVE to the incomplete options currently in place.

A Universal People's Equal Rights Health Care Plan

Principles for the WeCare Plan for 2019–2024 with Reproductive Justice Amendment 8 Sept 2018 & Full Mental/Emotional Care for Sexual Abuse Survivors

Ever wanted to #RaiseYourVoice in Support of a National People's Act by adding YOUR VOICE 2 Support People's #HealthCare4All Act P.A. 676, as a Foundation for the 35th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to be enacted by 8 October 2024 !!!

We, The People, Have the Power 2 Be the Change

We will take this issue to the ballot in 2018- 2024 and ask the voters to exercise their rights and demonstrate their power to enact changes that are in the public interest.

People…Planet…Animals…Possibilities

We Are Ready to Write "Herstory"

We will take this issue to ask the voters to exercise their rights and demonstrate their power to enact changes that are in the public interest.

A "SOPHIA" People's Act Project Supported in part by this Social Enterprise Fund http://bit.ly/He4SheGITV2018 & People's Equality Party

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Health care IS an equal right in a democratic society. The affordability and availability of health care is essential to the quality and length of life. Any society worthy of the support of its people needs to provide health care for all. The fact that quality health care is generally available depending on income compromises our humanity, makes health care peons of hardworking Americans, and drives millions of people to the brink of poverty and hampers economic growth by placing a financial burden on small businesses.

Cost Reductions, Analysis, Controls and Savings & 8 % Solution OR HOW TO PAY FOR HEALTHCARE 4 ALL = $4.76 Trillion per year !!!

1. Reduction of cost of administrative services (18%) per Dr. Robert Polan studies. Approx. Savings $388 Billion
2. Estimated reduction of cost of corporate profits, stock options, executive salaries, advertising and marketing (12%) Approx. Savings $288 Billion
3. Negotiation of prescription drug prices Approx. Savings $88 Billion
4. Negotiation with providers based on Medicare rates. Approx. Savings $208 Billion
5. Eliminate mark-ups which now range from 300% to 400% Approx. Savings $188 Billion
6. Conversion of $400 Billion "Peace Dividends" from DOD Budget.
7. 8 % excise tax on makers of sugar intensive snack foods.
8. 8 % excise tax on Fossil Fuel producers, Chemical and Toxic Substance producers.
9. 8 % excise tax on Meat Producers.
10. 8 % excise tax on Guns & Ammunitions Producers/Resellers.
11. 8 % excise tax on Fracking Extraction producers.
12. 8 % excise tax on Automotive industry
13. 8 % excise tax on Agricultural/Chemical producers.

8% Health Benefits Fund Based on 50% of US GDP of $20 Trillion YIELDS $800 Billion

8% Increase in Productivity at National GDP Yields $1.6 Trillion

Imagine a health care system which contributes to the health of all of its people, the prosperity of its businesses and industries.

We need an integrated public policy that not only addresses how we provide and pay for health care coverage but ensures that people know how to take care of their health, including nutrition education, access to healthy food, reducing exposure to toxic pollutants, stress management and a host of options which lead to improved health, cost efficiency and the direction of health care dollars to health care itself.

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We are proposing a WeCare plan guided by the following principles, consistent with HR 676, Medicare for All, co-authored by Dennis Kucinich, & Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, which encourages states to pursue universality, with health care for all Americans, and not just for some.

1. It shall be a not-for-profit, single payer system. One fund, one plan and one single payer, because it is the simplest and most efficient approach to the administration of health care resources. This does not mean government-run hospitals and long lines. It means there is one agency or organization within state government paying the bills and enjoying the reduced costs by cutting out middlemen.
2. Every single American will be covered. Having all Americans in the same group will insure that coverage for all at the lowest possible price. A single payer system will not be free, but through the elimination of the profit incentive, through cutting out waste, fraud, abuse and overcharges, by introducing careful analysis of where the greatest cost burdens are in the system, and by taking steps to improve health outcomes through primary care, we can dramatically drive down costs and insure that the expense involved will be dramatically reduced.
3. Americans will no longer have to worry about paying expensive premiums, co-pays and deductibles to health insurers.
4. Patients will be able to have the doctor of their choice.
5. Doctors would be paid on a fee-for-service basis within 30 days, without having to deal with for-profit. Insurance companies prolong deliver of payments to doctors or fight to reduce the fee owed.
6. Doctors and nurses' and medical industry staff jobs will become secure and the focus will be on caring for people, not having to worry about cutting patient services or taking time to administer for-profit insurance paperwork,
7. Providers must be not-for-profit. Private entities such as physicians and clinics cannot be owned by investors.
8. For-profit insurance companies make money not providing health care. In a not-for-profit system, health care dollars will be spent on health care.
9. For-profit insurers will be able to sell insurance to provide coverage for anything not covered by WeCare, but under no circumstances will they be able to duplicate WeCare
10. Our WeCare plan will emphasize prevention diet, nutrition, complementary medicine, and wellness at every age group.
11. System funding will be based on principles of health care cost analysis and efficiency.

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What will be covered under WeCare:

1. All medically necessary care, including primary care and prescription medicine.
2. In-patient care.
3. Out-patient care.
4. Obstetrics, pre-natal and post-natal care.
5. Reproductive health care.

1) Family planning is basic health care for women. Access to contraception helps women prevent unintended pregnancy and control the timing and spacing of planned births.

2) Abortion care is one of the safest medical procedures in the United States.

3) Approximately three in ten women will have an abortion in their lifetimes, and will need access to safe, legal facilities to obtain abortion care without delay.

4) Women need access to all reproductive options and, therefore, we must make all forms of contraception available and affordable. The United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy among industrialized nations. Each year, nearly half of pregnancies are unintended. Women rely on contraception for a range of medical purposes in addition to birth control, such as regulation of cycles and endometriosis. Women need complete and medically accurate information about every contraceptive option, including emergency contraception, and they need pharmacies to deliver the chosen option without delay.

5) Women need access to all reproductive options and, therefore, we must make abortion more affordable. No woman should have the decision to have, or not to have, an abortion made for her based on her ability or inability to afford the procedure. Since 1976, the federal government has withheld funds for abortion coverage through the Medicaid program as well as other federal health plans and programs. Seventeen states, however, have policies that include Medicaid abortion coverage because it is wrong to coerce women who cannot afford abortion to, for no other reason, carry a pregnancy to term.

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6) Women need access to all reproductive options and, therefore, we must we make abortion more accessible. The number of abortion providers has decreased due to practice restrictions and threats of violence. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends allowing advanced practice clinicians (APCs) — nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives and physician assistants — to perform aspiration abortions and medication abortions. Studies show that trained APCs are fully qualified to provide aspiration and medication abortion services.

7) Women need access to all reproductive options and, therefore, we must ensure fair workplace treatment of pregnant women and mothers. Women in the workplace who request accommodations in order to maintain a healthy pregnancy or to recover from childbirth are being removed from their positions, placed on unpaid leave, or fired. Not only do these policies harm pregnant women and mothers, but all women who employers may perceive negatively because of their potential to get pregnant.

8) Women need access to all reproductive options and, therefore, we must expand Medicaid to ensure that women and their families have access to health care coverage. Health coverage for all is essential, but this is especially true for pregnant women and young children. Pregnant women are far more likely to obtain needed pre-natal care when they have insurance. Further, unhealthy children tend to grow up to be unhealthy adults, and uninsured preschoolers struggle more when they reach grade school because of untreated medical conditions. Approximately seven percent of all children age five and younger are uninsured, many of them because they live in states without Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

9) Women need access to all reproductive options and, therefore, we must ensure that reproductive healthcare clinics are not forced to close because of politics. In 2011, 89 percent of U.S. counties lacked an abortion facility. In 2015, four states had only one abortion provider, and at least ten states had three or fewer abortion providers. Clinic closures can force women to travel long distances to reach the nearest clinic, or force women to delay care as they arrange transportation, time off from work, and save additional money for travel or lodging costs. Women who face these obstacles are more likely to seek out less safe alternatives to legal abortion.

10) Women need access to all reproductive options and, therefore, we must prevent discrimination that limits the availability of foster care and adoption. There is a shortage of qualified individuals willing to adopt or foster a child in the child welfare system. As a result, thousands of foster children lack a permanent and safe home. Child welfare agencies must not use sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status as a means to discriminate in adoption and foster care recruitment, selection and placement.

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(B) PURPOSE — This law is enacted to protect the health, safety and welfare of women by supporting their rights to avoid pregnancy, obtain an abortion, or have children.

SECTION 3. WOMEN'S RIGHT TO THE PILL

(A) DEFINITIONS — In this section:

1) "Contraception" or "contraceptive" means any drug or device approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy.

2) "Emergency contraception" means one or more drugs, used separately or in combination to prevent pregnancy within a medically-recommended amount of time after sexual intercourse.

3) "Employee" means a person hired, by contract or any other form of an agreement, by a pharmacy.

4) "Pharmacy" means an entity that is licensed by the state under [insert appropriate citation] to engage in the business of selling prescription drugs at retail, and employs one or more employees.

5) "Product" means a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug or device.

6) "Professional clinical judgment" means the use of professional knowledge and skills to form a clinical judgment, in accordance with prevailing medical standards.

7) "Without delay" with respect to a pharmacy providing, providing a referral for, or ordering contraception, or transferring the prescription for contraception, means within the usual and customary time frame at the pharmacy for providing, providing a referral for, or ordering other products, or transferring the prescription for other products, respectively.

(B) DUTY OF PHARMACIES

1) If a customer requests a contraceptive that is in stock, the pharmacy shall ensure that the contraceptive is provided to the customer without delay.

2) If a customer requests a contraceptive that is not in stock, the pharmacy shall immediately inform the customer that the contraceptive is not in stock and without delay offer the customer the following options:

a) If the customer prefers to obtain the contraceptive through a referral or transfer, the pharmacy shall locate a pharmacy of the customer's choice or the closest pharmacy confirmed to have the contraceptive in stock; and refer the customer or transfer the prescription to that pharmacy.

b) If the customer prefers for the pharmacy to order the contraceptive, the pharmacy shall obtain the contraceptive under the pharmacy's standard procedure for expedited ordering of medication and notify the customer when the contraceptive arrives.

3) The pharmacy shall ensure that its employees do not:

a) Intimidate, threaten, or harass customers in the delivery of services relating to a request for contraception;

b) Interfere with or obstruct the delivery of services relating to a request for contraception;

c) Intentionally misrepresent or deceive customers about the availability of contraception or its mechanism of action;

d) Breach medical confidentiality with respect to a request for contraception or threaten to breach such confidentiality; or

e) Refuse to return a valid, lawful prescription for contraception upon customer request.

4) This section does not prohibit a pharmacy from refusing to provide a contraceptive to a customer in accordance with any of the following:

a) If it is unlawful to dispense the contraceptive to the customer without a valid, lawful prescription and no such prescription is presented;

b) If the customer is unable to pay for the contraceptive; or

c) If a licensed pharmacist refuses to provide the contraceptive on the basis of a professional clinical judgment.

5) Pharmacies shall stock over-the-counter emergency contraception and make it available for purchase without a prescription in accordance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration protocol.

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© ENFORCEMENT

1) The state [Board of Pharmacy] shall enforce this section in accordance with [section of law dealing with violations of Board policy].

2) Any person aggrieved as a result of a violation of this section may, in any court of competent jurisdiction, commence a civil action against the pharmacy involved to obtain appropriate relief, including actual and punitive damages, injunctive relief, and a reasonable attorney's fee and cost.

Full text available here http://publicleadershipinstitute.org/abortion-rights/support-pregnancy-options-act/

Other important Services to be Covered

1. Emergency care
2. Mental health including Sexual Abuse Survivors Therapy
3. Vision care
4. Auditory care, including hearing aids
5. Podiatric care
6. Addiction treatment
7. Diet, and nutritional counseling.
8. Complementary medicine, including acupuncture and chiropractic service.
9. Comprehensive Dental care, including Orthodontia.
10. Well-being Animal Health Care.

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America can become a leader in health care for all by addressing an integrated system, sharply reducing costs, and expanding health care for all through a single-payer, not-for profit-system, and I am prepared to lead the way.

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Excerpted from https://twitter.com/Dennis_Kucinich

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