Organize Pro-Choice March!

In 2011, it will be 38 years since the 1973 Roe v Wade decision guaranteeing women residing in the US a right to a safe and legal abortion. That decision has been seriously curtailed with the criminalizing of late term abortions in a court decision which Democrat Obama did not try to correct when he had both houses with majority Democrats. Instead, Democrat Obama pushed through an insurance company profiteering scheme, without Republican help, that requires that abortion insurance be offered by the employer separately from other medical insurance, none of which guarantees top quality medical care. There are now 50 million uninsured Americans. The US is now 49th in life expectancy due to the high cost of medical insurance, putting it behind the entire industrialized world which has socialized medicine, as well as some of the non-industrialized world. There is no stopping of increases in rate. Kaiser just increased its annual rates by almost 7%; nobody's wages went up 7%. A person in the 60-65 year old group in 2011 pays $638 per month, plus $25 to see the doctor, $10 for each lab test and X-ray and $200 a day hospitalization. All of this used to be free within the memory of the long-time members of Kaiser who are over 60 who were on a group plan, and if a member as an individual, the monthly payment was minimal. Bankruptcies due to inability to pay medical bills are 62%, even though they had insurance.
We need:
Free abortion on demand with no restrictions provided by every county in the US;
A complete elimination of all medical insurance companies;
Free socialized medicine, paid for with our tax dollars based on the progressive income tax, raising the taxes on the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year from all sources;
Free socialized medicine including drugs, dental care, optometry, podiatry, chiropractor, acupuncture, physical therapy and all other related medical care;
A mandate that all medical facilities, including hospitals, be public facilities, not privately owned or run by any religious organization;
A mandate that every county have sufficient medical facilities to meet the needs of its population;
A mandate that every grade school, from pre-school through grade 12, have a nurse on the premises during school hours and that the nurse be required to check the vision and hearing of every child annually;
A mandate that an abortion and birth control clinic be built near every high school and college, offering free condoms, free birth control and free abortions on demand, with no restrictions.

Some comments on your demands -- MOST of which are good, intelligent demands but ........


"A complete elimination of all medical insurance companies"
Maybe not a good idea? It is one thing for us to provide free medical of some sort to everybody. But any such system will need to decide some things don't make sense. You want not only not for the society as a whole to provide these but to FORBID them? (if we have socialized medicine, ALL that other medical insurance might be for would be procedures not provided, etc.

"Free socialized medicine, paid for with our tax dollars based on the progressive income tax, raising the taxes on the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year from all sources"
Present your numbers please. Are you SURE that even a conficatory rate of income tax on the very rich (say 50%) would provide enough to fund this program? That's using figures for their projected income AFTER that tax goes into effect.

"A mandate that all medical facilities, including hospitals, be public facilities, not privately owned or run by any religious organization"
You want to forbid any medical care outside the public system? Hey, how about goinf farther. You could try to make it illegal for people to escape your imprisonment by travelling to other coubtries.

PLEASE -- understand what I am trying to tell you (I'm not the enemy). PICK YOUR BATTLES. No point in making enemies from folks who would otherwise be neutrals. It's going to be hard enough for us to win the fight to get socialized medicine installed without at the saem time trying to make it illegal for people to opt out.

Why are anti-abortion, anti-women, anti-socialized medicine comments allowed on this website? To all men: We women are the majority of the population; we are not your dependents; we do not tolerate hate from you in any form, and neither should this website. Since this is supposed to be a radical website, why are any attacks on socialized medicine and any support for insurance companies allowed?

It takes a while sometimes for indybay eds to go through the comments. We do allow reasonable discussion from opposing points of view. Thank you for posting!