As GOP is on course to gut Medicaid at the federal level, initiatives like Whole Washington working on legislating universal healthcare at the state level are even more important. Whole Washington is running a pretty efficient campaign and already has good support in WA legislature in both the Senate and the House.
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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.
@shansterable
I support the idea of #M4A #MedicareForAll #AmeriCare Mastodon server. (Alas, I'm not qualified to help ) I've suggested a progressive populist FDR-Dem server, but no traction there.
Copied from a Facebook friend's page:
#Medicare4All #M4A #HealthcareIsAHumanRight
#Bernie #BernieSanders
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.
Improved Medicare for All Can Heal This Sick Country
A system that collects money from patients and employers then profits by withholding the promised care is not a business but a fraudulent, diabolical scam.
"Medicare Advantage… CMMI issues waivers to private plans exempting them from fraud and abuse laws… allowing kickbacks, self-referral, and illegal benefit inducement."
Kay Tillow, Judy Albert, Claire M. Cohen, Ed Grystar, Ana Malinow
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/medicare-for-all-2670870808
#MedicareForAll #M4A #AmeriCare
That research, its follow up (see: https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/113749007422037129,) and other similar analyses in the past all seem to me to concur that the savings from a #M4A system would be similar in magnitude to the aggregate compensation of the highest-paid 100 US healthcare/health insurance/PBM/Pharma executives.
The researchers do not explicitly make such a cost comparison. It just seems relevant to me… https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/113743404459770963
'Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, who is overseeing pre-trial hearings for Luigi Mangione, is married to a former Pfizer executive and holds hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, including in healthcare companies and pharmaceutical companies, according to her 2023 financial disclosures.'
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigi-mangione-judge-married-to-former
The elites through their employees (government and media) are working hard to make Luigi Mangione a pariah, an example of how it isn't working, is this Mexican 'corrido' showing up in TikTok
'Price gouging and death in one chart about profits.'
source: https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1868787109500534809
“Was Luigi justified?
Yes no”
Someone sent me these pics of street art in Manhattan where the residents of the area seemed to have voted overwhelmingly in support of Luigi Mangione.
'Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference.
“Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique.'
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
Seen in Koch Brothers' country
https://www.reddit.com/r/wichita/comments/1hb4anp/bridge_no/
'Comedian Bill Burr on why the media ignores the CEO killer’s vast public support.'
source: https://x.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1866322359474348443