Health

Photo: Pina Messina
Vision
Everyone in Southwest Florida can have affordable access to good health care and preventative care without fear of going broke or losing their loved ones.
Ideas
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Expand health care access to everyone based on a sliding scale of affordability.
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Ensure a basic minimum level of care for everyone with no exceptions for pre-existing conditions.
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Look into incorporating a Medicare for All-type healthcare program, where we can focus on streamlining the program by using Japan's system as a model to focus on cost savings and decentralization.
Plan
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Preserve key tenets of the Affordable Care Act that ensure coverage for pre-existing conditions and young adults.
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Eliminate marketplace plans and replace with an option for basic minimal coverage with a sliding scale monthly affordable pay-in administered through the Health and Human Services Department and promote supplementary private insurance plans available through employers or for private insurance.
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Establish fair market set costs for procedures and pharmaceuticals to eliminate profiteering.
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Eliminate gaps in coverage in Medicaid and Medicare by merging into one program for all basic health care coverage.