Access to Healthcare is a Human Right

I support a Universal Healthcare program because it would eliminate the problems and the human suffering caused by the profit-driven Corporate Health Care Industrial Complex. Don't let them fool you, the high costs of health care in this country is not due to "over-utilization" or "unnecessary testing" as Mike Thompson would have you believe. The CHCIC is the main cause of the high cost of health care in the United States. I support a system that would eliminate insurance premiums, co-pays and deductibles, would eliminate the need for insurance companies, and their highly overpaid CEOs, who drain the health care system of vital resources that should have been going toward treating patients all along.  These unnecessary "administrators" drain the system and use the money to fund executive salaries and stockholder dividends while allowing our children and other family members to unnecessarily die in their care by refusing to authorize needed services. The amount of administrative waste and outright corruption is staggering.

Mike Thompson supports the CHCIC. They pay him thousands and thousands of dollars to vote a certain way in Congress, to oppose Universal Health Care (even if he knows it's the right thing to do), and to never criticize the monster that he helped to create.

This monster all but guarantees that the uninsured, unprotected and underrepresented populations, like my neighbors here in Lake County, and in the rural Yolo County, and the Students in Santa Rosa and Sonoma, and the elderly Medicare and Social Security recipients all over this great district and the poor children in every one of our school districts and the small business owners paving their own way by the skin of their teeth...these are the people that are made to feel the brunt of the health care imbalance. No one in this country should have to go without health care because they don't have the money. No one should have to go bankrupt because they got sick or were in an accident. That is unacceptable and yet it happens every day.​

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Mike Thompson does not support Universal Health Care. That is expected from is the 16th richest member of Congress and a "friend" to the CHCIC. He sees the problem as less the responsibility of the health care industry providers and insurers and would rather blame the ineffective system on the users like you and me:

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          "By streamlining health care, reducing fraud and abuse, ending unnecessary testing, discouraging over-

          utilization, investing in smart reforms, and emphasizing preventive health care, we can significantly bring down

          the cost of health care." - Mike Thompson

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You see, he thinks we all just go to the doctor too much, at every little whimper...or we're just faking it...like we have time for that!

Mike Thompson is on the wrong side of the Health Care debate. People go to the doctor more when they are uncertain and scared. When health care is scarce and expensive and information is unreliable or unavailable, it makes people worry more. It creates more uncertainty and fear about their health and subsequently drives up use. If people felt confident that they could go to the doctor anytime with no cost, they wouldn't have that stress and worry, and this would lead to overall lower utilization. Just think about two alternatives for a minute. A "for-profit" system does not want a healthy population. A healthy population would drive down profits - antithetical to corporate greed. Alternatively, an efficient single-payer system loves a healthy population because that would keep costs down. Universal Health Care makes sense to anyone not bought and paid for by the Corporate Health Care Industrial Complex. It makes sense to me.