Healthcare

• Support the immediate repeal of ObamaCare.
• Believe citizens should be free to choose their own healthcare and health insurance and not be required to participate in any particular healthcare program.
• Support the right of healthcare consumers to obtain health insurance from any insurer in any state.
• Support health savings accounts and other consumer choice reforms.
• Support Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ constitutional challenge to ObamaCare and encourage his use of every legal means to resist its mandate.

• Support a quality universal healthcare system not tied to employment, as a basic right of all citizens.
• Support guaranteed, quality, affordable and comprehensive healthcare for all through a not-for-profit single payer financed system, which would provide patient choice and continuity of care within our system of private providers; is portable and not tied to employment; returns medical decisions to the patient and healthcare provider (eliminating insurance company interference); includes strong cost containment measures; and reduces administration costs.
• Support a healthcare system should be focused proactively on wellness, health promotion, preventative medicine, public health, disease prevention, as well as primary care.
• Support providing for the long-term solvency of Medicare; full and adequate funding of Medicare and Medicaid sufficient to promote the participation of healthcare providers; ensuring that enrollees in traditional Medicare do not subsidize through their premiums enrollees in private Medicare Advantage and permitting Medicare to negotiate drug costs directly with the pharmaceutical industry.

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