health care

End subsidies for cheap food that makes us sick. Our society needs to get back to sustainable agriculture. Small farms cannot compete with large, subsidized farms. A more balanced playing field would encourage people to purchase more healthy food. Real food, not cheap food-like products. How can a packaged amalgamation of ingredients be cheaper than the sum of its parts? Subsidies. AND food is very much connected with our health care crisis. I don't want my taxes to go to these unfair subsidies.

Bring the troops home--all of them. Make global poverty history. Revoke NAFTA. Establish single-payor, non profit health care for every American. Replace free trade with fair trade. Leave moral issues in church and not in legislation. Fight global warming with everything we've got. Maintain a balanced budget and repay the national debt. Forgive debts of third world countries.

Boost the economy by committing to affordable health care for all, expanding true alternative energy businesses (not small sidelines managed by Big Oil), and end the War in Iraq, demilitarize the War On Terror and fight fundamentalism with education and economic prosperity.

Send a plan to Congress to create universal, single-payer health care that gives everyone the high quality care that members of Congress enjoy. No more depending on your employment status, marital status, age, or health condition to screen you out of the health care system!

To encourage voting in the Texas Primary, Austin singer-songwriter Kat Edmonson ( http://www.myspace.com/katedmonson ) marched around the streets of Austin asking complete strangers, "What would you do if you were President?". The resulting video is a simple yet powerful montage of diverse Austinites writing and presenting their own colorful answers to the camera. Find out what Austin wants to see addressed On Day One.

Time for a Single Payer Healthcare system. Time for patent reform. Time for price controls on drugs, devices and diagnostics. Time for increased funding for NIH from in vitro to clinical trials. Time to demand all human clinical studies are PUBLISHED (positive or negative). Time for more research on complementary and alternative medicine. Time to end the global economic genocide by pharmaceutical companies horrible pricing and generics blocking. Time for real sex ed and the end of drug laws.

On Day One, the next President of the United States should be working on universal health care.

My agenda is that I'm being held hostage by Medicaid and Medicare. I worked for many years and paid into the system. I'm not traveling from state-to-state having babies, I wasn't on drugs and I'm not an alcoholic neither am I a criminal. I was disabled by Multiple Sclerosis more than 7 years ago and not only do criminals and convicts have more rights and better health care in prisons that my son and I and it is not fair at all. This issue is important to me.

Health care access for everyone should be issue #1. Health care costs are out of control, affecting the bottom line of companies as well as the take-home pay of many Americans. Many insured Americans are chronically underinsured and under constant threat of a critical illness wiping out their assets. The practices of insurers re: who and how they insure, needs reform. My husband was only 30 with no major illnesses when he was turned down for individual insurance. THE SYSTEM NEEDS CHANGE!

To encourage voting in the Texas Primary, Austin singer-songwriter Kat Edmonson ( http://www.myspace.com/katedmonson ) marched around the streets of Austin asking complete strangers, "What would you do if you were President?". The resulting video is a simple yet powerful montage of diverse Austinites writing and presenting their own colorful answers to the camera. Find out what Austin wants to see addressed On Day One.