Ensure health care for all Californians
Tom knows quality health care is a right, not a privilege – and that there’s too much profit, and not enough health care, in our health care system. That’s why he’s been endorsed by the California Nurses Association, and progressive single payer health care champions like Congressman Ro Khanna and Representative Ash Kalra, the author of Cal-Care.
Our next governor must face the facts. California’s current system is unsustainable for working people and businesses. Health care spending and insurance rates continue to rise well above the rate of economic growth. The total average family premium – the combination of employer and employee costs – now exceeds $25K, and is up 52% over the last decade. This year, employers are expected to face their largest increase in health care costs in 15 years, with much of that cost passed to employees.
Have these costs led to healthier and happier communities? No. They’ve lined the pockets of middle-men and insurance executives, whose entire business model is to deliver the least amount of care at the highest possible cost.
Tom believes strongly that the only way we’ll reduce health care costs, expand coverage, and promote public health when it is under attack from the Trump administration is through a single-payer system. And he is committed to getting California there.
As the largest and most powerful state, California will set an example for the rest of the United States to follow.
Provide universal coverage
- Build a system that covers everyone with the full range of health care services, regulates rates, and includes a robust network of coordinated care.
Hold down costs and reward quality
- Insurance companies and middle-men squeeze every dollar from our health care system and gouge patients on cost of care.
- It’s time to cut them out and set rates based on what’s best for patients and public health, not the bottom line.
Defend our health system, especially in rural California
- The Trump administration is stealing from the most vulnerable in our state by siphoning money from our hospitals in the form of corporate tax breaks.
- Tom will reverse this wealth transfer and tax corporations and billionaires – including Trump himself – to keep our hospitals open.
Never sacrifice on quality
- California has built the world’s most advanced health care and biomedical research ecosystem, and will remain so.
- Tom will guarantee universal access to advanced treatments. Every Californian should have access to these treatments, not just the wealthy.
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