2ND District WV

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Read the speech by Virginia Lynch Graf to the
WV State
Medical Association

45,000 Americans die each year because they lack medical coverage.

In the 2ND District of West Virginia, 18.4% of us are without health care, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

The Washington, DC-based US Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business lobby, spent 26 million during the first six months of 2009 to lobby against government-financed health care—to prevent you from having a choice of lower premiums.

 

 

 

Health Care

Health Care is a Right, Not a Commodity

Along with other developed countries, we must start with the understanding that health care is a right, not a commodity. Economically, we cannot ask employers to continually finance health care.

 

 

The most efficient health care reform is expanded and improved Medicare for All.  How would it work?

  • All medical care is covered from birth to death.
  • The system of private medical care providers stays the same. You choose any doctor; none is “out of network.”
  • You pay through a fair tax, instead of premiums, co-pays, and deductibles.
  • Medicare for All would direct your money to health care, not insurance company subsidies and profits.
  • No longer would anyone pay for advertising, paper pushers denying claims, and medical staff resubmitting claims.
  • This simplified system saves enough money to provide health care for all.