Medicare for All.  It’s the only way to control costs, provide equal access to services, remove the linkage between employment and access to health care and guarantee that every person in Maryland can see a doctor when they get sick. We can still do this here in Maryland and I will work with Healthcare Now of Maryland to ensure that it does.

Why should insurance companies be a part of any health care system?  Do they heal anyone?  Do insurance company CEOs bind our wounds?  There is no good reason – except skyrocketing profits for them – for our health care system to be this way.

Medicare is still the lowest-cost program to administer and is the only program that will control costs, generate huge cost savings and cost us much less while guaranteeing that everyone will be able to get the affordable healthcare they need.  Medicare for All is a primary component in job creation because it alleviates companies, especially small businesses, from having to shoulder the enormous cost burden of providing ever more expensive health insurance to their employees.

I oppose the recently passed federal legislation because it won’t work.  Massachusetts did this a few years ago and their budget has been further strained by the law’s requirements.  Forcing people to buy a defective product is foolish and plain wrong.  We need to eliminate the insurance racket from our health and our lives.

What insurance, pharmaceutical, for-profit hospital companies have done to our health care system is a crime and we must create here what every other industrialized country in the world has:  guaranteed health care for all, much lower costs, and a citizenry with higher health outcomes than ours.

It’s time to stop using our lives and the lives of our children in service to the obscene profits of the health insurance industry.