Note:
This Resolution is submitted for discussion, dialog, debate and
action by the Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council as our part
in celebrating the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human
Rights on December 10, 2013: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Feel free to circulate.
Resolution on Health
Care Reform (267
words)
Where as the for-profit health care
system has failed to provide the American people with adequate health
care;
Where as this for-profit system of
health care has resulted in forcing millions of Americans into
poverty as a result of huge health care bills;
Where as a National Public Health Care
System would create twelve to fifteen million new jobs providing the
American people with free health care which is a human right;
Therefore, be it resolved a National
Public Health Care System is required;
Therefore, be it resolved health care
should be publicly financed, publicly administered and publicly
delivered based on the model provided by public education---
everyone in, nobody out.
Therefore, be it resolved a National
Public Health Care System should be funded and financed through these
various methods in combination:
1. “Peace dividends” resulting from
ending militarism and wars.
2. A hefty tax on the wealthy.
3. A payroll tax levied one-quarter on
employees and three-quarters on employers.
Therefore, be it resolved that a
single-payer universal health care system of short duration is an
acceptable first step in implementing a National Public Health Care
System;
Therefore, be it resolved the American
people are entitled to free health care as a human right;
Therefore, be it resolved that health
care will be publicly delivered through a network of neighborhood and
community health care centers and shall include: primary health care
including, but not limited to, general health care, eyes, ears,
dental and mental health; pre-natal through burial.
Therefore be it resolved this becomes
the position of (name of organization/party)
