Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Please note I have a new phone number...

512-517-2708

Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Letter to the Editor New York Times on health care reform; please consider for your health care discussion

From: Alan Maki 

Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:39 AM

Subject: Letter to the Editor on health care reform; please consider for your health care discussion

To: letters@nytimes.com


Responding to---

Editors’ Note: We invite readers to respond to this letter for our Sunday Dialogue. We plan to publish responses and Dr. Metz’s rejoinder in the Sunday Review. E-mail: letters@nytimes.com


Letter to the Editor, New York Times; submitted for publication

While I agree single-payer universal health care could be a step towards real health care reform, what this country really needs is a National Public Health Care System; no-fees/no-premiums, all-inclusive, comprehensive from pre-natal to grave and universal--- publicly financed, publicly administered and publicly delivered.

Such a system would require 30,000 primary care facilities conveniently located in neighborhoods and communities like our Post Offices. 

We wouldn't think of using private schools to teach our children to read and write so why would we trust the "free market" to provide us with health care?

For much less than the cost of these dirty wars the wealthiest country in the world could create this kind of world-class National Public Health Care System which would create some ten-million good-paying jobs providing the American people with free health care.


Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council

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