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Healthcare-NOW! - Organizing for a national, single-payer healthcare system.
President Obama's Principles for Healthcare Reform
--WILL IT HELP YOU or HURT YOU?
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1. Protect families' financial health. The plan must reduce the growing premiums and other costs American citizens and businesses pay for health care. People must be protected from bankruptcy due to catastrophic illness.
2. Make health coverage affordable. The plan must reduce high administrative costs, unnecessary tests and services, waste and other inefficiencies that consume money with no added health benefits.
3. Aim for universality. The plan must put the United States on a clear path to cover all Americans.
4. Provide portability of coverage. People should not be locked into their job just to secure health coverage, and no American should be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
5. Guarantee choice. The plan should provide Americans a choice of health plans and physicians. They should have the option of keeping their employer-based health plan.
6. Invest in prevention and wellness. The plan must invest in public health measures proven to reduce cost drivers in our system — such as obesity, sedentary lifestyles and smoking — as well as guarantee access to proven preventive treatments.
7. Improve patient safety and quality care. The plan must ensure the implementation of proven patient safety measures and provide incentives for changes in the delivery system to reduce unnecessary variability in patient care. It must support the widespread use of health information technology and the development of data on the effectiveness of medical interventions to improve the quality of care delivered.
8. Maintain long-term fiscal sustainability. The plan must pay for itself by reducing the level of cost growth, improving productivity and dedicating additional sources of revenue.
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The next regular meeting of the Progressive Caucus will be on
Tuesday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m.
at the Asbury United Methodist Church, 1653 Davison
Road, in Flint.
Meetings are now being held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, at 6:30 p.m., in the Asbury United Methodist Church, 1653 Davison Road, in Flint, MI. The church is located on Davison Road, about 3 blocks east of I-475, on the north side of the road, almost across from the old Brown Funeral Home. There is parking next to the church.
Come early to socialize with other members.
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Healthcare is a human right.
The Progressive Caucus supports
the National Healthcare Bill,
Cong. John Conyers' H.R. 676
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Congressman John Conyers spoke at two Caucus events in August, 2005 and March, 2006.
Michael Moore accepts the Paul Wellstone
Memorial Award from Caucus Chair,
Maryion Lee on November 20, 2005.
President: Maryion Lee
SHERMARFAM@aol.com
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OUR MISSION
 We, the members of the Progressive Caucus of the Genesee County Democratic Party have come together to carry forward those basic values that are the foundation of America. We affirm our conviction that all people are created equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights. While we acknowledge that people differ in such things as national origin, racial identity, religion, sexual orientation, political beliefs, or personal abilities, such differences are superficial and inconsequential in comparison to the fundamental human qualities and needs that we all share. Because of this fundamental equality, everyone deserves equal opportunity for healthcare, employment, and a good education as well as equal protection under the law.
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