Healthcare is a Human Right - Maryland
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Contact: brittany@hchrmd.org
We are a Maryland-based public education and advocacy campaign for National Improved Medicare for All. We have seven chapters with regular meetings. We are a Maryland-based public education and advocacy campaign for a single payer solution to our failed for-profit healthcare system. It’s time for people in the United States to take responsibility for this essential public good and to demand National Improved Medicare for All (HR-676). We have active chapters with regular organizing meetings in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore, Carroll County, Frederick, Howard County, Montgomery County and Prince George’s County. To find out more, go to http://www.hchrmd.org or send an email to Brittany@HCHRMD.org. The inspiration for our effort is based on a few obvious points: 1. Human life is sacred. Apart from the several UN and international government documents arguing that affordable, universal access to health care is a human right, all of us know this truth intimately. 2. It’s achievable. Every other industrial nation in the world has universal health care, usually as a “single-payer” system (publicly funded, privately provided). Those living in these nations tend to live longer, happier lives, with a wider range of choice and freedom. Our country is the richest in the world, and we already have proof that universal health care is feasible in the US thanks to the inspiring work of our allies in Vermont who in May 2011 were able to pass a statewide single-payer bill through a nearly all-volunteer grassroots effort. 3. Health inequality further exacerbates income and general inequality as more and more of us are forced into debt (medical debt makes up most bankruptcies in Maryland) and forced into unhealthy, shorter lives since many of us cannot afford preventative care. 4. We already have what it takes. Each other. History has demonstrated that when concerned community members recognize their individual and collective power, nothing is impossible. Our families are suffering under the current for-profit health care system, and since the system has been corrupted so severely over the past decades, the only way to achieve the care we need is by building our own power throughout the state.
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