Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016#Healthcare

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## Contents

* 1 Stein on healthcare
* 2 Recent news
* 3 See also
* 4 Footnotes

This page was current as of the 2016 election.

See below what Jill Stein and the Green Party Platform said about healthcare.

CANDIDATE SUMMARY

* Stein supported a 'Medicare For All' single-payer public health insurance program to provide everyone with quality health care at a reduced cost.
* She believed healthcare should be a human right.
* Stein maintained that Americans can lower healthcare costs by reducing pollution, making consumer products safer, integrating public transportation with walking and biking, and increasing the availability of healthy food choices.

##  Stein on healthcare[edit]

* Stein spoke about Colorado ballot measures at a campaign event in Denver on August 28, 2016, saying, "It’s so awesome to be here in Colorado where you are leading the charge in so many ways starting with marijuana legalization … and now on this Amendment 69 you are moving us forward … and by the way Amendment 69 shows why we also need improved Medicare for all at the national level." Stein continued, “Because we need the enabling legislation at the national level in order to make it possible to really have the streamlined merger into a single-payer system. Ultimately that’s where we want to go, but measure 69 gets us started and that’s critical. Thank you for leading the way.”[2][3] In an interview with The Colorado Independent on August 27, 2016, Stein said she does not endorse the plan. “I don’t want to throw my weight behind an endorsement at this point. But I would certainly respect anyone who sees fit to work on it,” said Stein.[4]

* At a town hall event hosted by CNN on August 17, 2016, Stein was asked her stance on vaccines. Stein said, “I think there's kind of an effort to divert the conversation from our actual agenda. The idea that I oppose vaccines is completely ridiculous.”[5]

* In an interview with The Washington Post published on July 29, 2016, Jill Stein spoke about vaccines. "Like any medication, they also should be — what shall we say? — approved by a regulatory board that people can trust. And I think right now, that is the problem. That people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence," Stein said.[6]

* In a February 8, 2016, interview with Robert Scheer, Stein said her approach to healthcare is similar to Bernie Sanders'. She explained, "The one place we differ from Bernie on health care is by defending the Affordable Care Act, or saying that we're going to build on the Affordable Care Act, because that's the mythology that the health insurance system uses, that we can grow our way incrementally to a single-payer system. And you can't; you really have to kiss it goodbye and expand Medicare in one fell swoop, which can be done very quickly and efficiently."[7]

* During a February 5, 2016, interview, Jill Stein described how her Green New Deal would reduce healthcare costs. She said, "[W]hen you shut down the endless stream of pollution into our air, our water, our consumer products, etc., that derive from fossil fuels, we get so much healthier that it massively reduces our health care costs. And this is not just a hypothetical. This actually happened in the country of Cuba when their oil pipeline went down, so we know this is really true. When you take the pollution out of the air, you enable people to eat a fresh and healthy and sustainable food system and you integrate public transportation into walking and biking so we can actually use our own motor power to get places, that creates the real foundation for health that we in this country spend $3 trillion a year for. And we are only getting sicker; we are not getting better."[8]

* In a November 3, 2015, interview, Jill Stein said she would push for a Medicare-for-all system in her first 100 days if elected president. "The...thing that we will do is create health care as a human right, which is critical and also must be done in order for people to be productive and creative members of society we need to be healthy. And we’ll actually save money, not lose money, by moving to an improved Medicare-for-all, which is far simpler and saves about US$400 billion a year in waste, paper pushing, and pharmaceutical and insurance company profiteering. That money can be put toward covering everyone comprehensively."[9]

* On Stein's 2016 presidential campaign website, she stated she would like to "[e]stablish an improved 'Medicare For All' single-payer public health insurance program to provide everyone with quality health care, at huge savings."[10]

* In the 2012 "People's State of the Union," responding to President Obama's "State of the Union" address, Stein said, "[M]y administration will honor the right to quality health care through an improved Medicare for All program. This will provide comprehensive care for all. It will be free to consumers at the point of delivery, but will save money overall by reducing the massive wasteful health insurance bureaucracy and by stabilizing medical inflation. And it restores freedom of choice so you pick your health care provider, and your care is decided by you and your provider– not by a profiteering insurance executive. This will be federally financed and democratically controlled."[11]
* Read what other presidential candidates said about healthcare.

The 2016 Green Party Platform on healthcare

| “  | F. Health Care

The Green Party supports single-payer universal health care and preventive care for all. We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

Our current health care system lets tens of thousands of people die each year by excluding them from adequate care, while its exorbitant costs are crippling our economy. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national health care system.

Under a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system, the administrative waste of private insurance corporations would be redirected to patient care. If the United States were to shift to a system of universal coverage and a single payer plan, as in Canada and many European countries, the savings in administrative costs would be more than enough to offset the cost of additional care. Expenses for businesses currently providing coverage would be reduced, while state and local governments would pay less because they would receive reimbursement for services provided to the previously uninsured, and because public programs would cease to be the "dumping ground" for high-risk patients and those rejected by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) when they become disabled and unemployed. In addition, people would gain the peace of mind in knowing that they have health care they need. No longer would people have to worry about the prospect of financial ruin if they become seriously ill, are laid off their jobs, or are injured in an accident.

The Green Party supports a wide range of health care services, including conventional medicine, as well as the teaching, funding and practice of complementary, integrative and licensed alternative health care approaches.

Greens recognize that our own health is also intimately tied to the health of our communities and environment. To improve our own health, we must improve the quality of our air, water and food and the health of our workplaces, homes and schools.

The Green Party unequivocally supports a woman's right to reproductive choice, no matter her marital status or age, and that contraception and safe, legal abortion procedures be available on demand and be included in all health insurance coverage in the U.S., as well as free of charge in any state where a woman's income falls below the poverty level. [See section A.1. Women's Rights in this chapter]

We recommend the following actions:

1\. Single-Payer Health Care

Enact a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health plan that will provide the following with no increase in cost:

a. A publicly funded health care insurance program, administered at the state and local levels, with comprehensive lifetime benefits, including dental, vision, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, medication coverage, and hospice and long-term care;

b. Participation of all licensed and/or certified health providers, subject to standards of practice in their field, with the freedom of patients to choose the type of health care provider from a wide range of health care choices, and with decision-making in the hands of patients and their health providers, not insurance companies;

c. Portability of coverage regardless of geographical location or employment;

d. Cost controls via streamlined administration, national fee schedules, bulk purchases of drugs and medical equipment, coordination of capital expenditures and publicly negotiated prices of medications;

e. Primary and preventive care as priorities, including wellness education about diet, nutrition and exercise; holistic health; and medical marijuana.

f. More comprehensive services for those who have special needs, including the mentally ill, the differently abled and those who are terminally ill;

g. A mental health care system that safeguards human dignity, respects individual autonomy, and protects informed consent;

h. Greatly reduced paperwork for both patients and providers;

i. Fair and full reimbursement to providers for their services;

j. Hospitals that can afford safe and adequate staffing levels of registered nurses;

k. Establishment of national, state, and local health policy boards consisting of health consumers and providers to oversee and evaluate the performance of the system, ensure access to care, and help determine research priorities; and

l. Establishment of a National Health Trust Fund that would channel all current Federal payments for health care programs directly into the Fund, in addition to employees' health premium payments.

2\. AIDS / HIV

The Green Party calls for comprehensive, humane, and competent care of all people with AIDS/HIV.

An all-out campaign must be waged against AIDS/ HIV and other blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis. The AIDS epidemic has not been adequately addressed at the local, state, federal, or international levels. All people in all countries, including those with AIDS/HIV, have a right to medical care, protection from discrimination, and confidentiality. Drug corporations have a strong profit motivation to make this disease a manageable one (like diabetes) with guaranteed sales of very expensive drugs, in the billions of dollars every year. Drug companies have not emphasized research that targets a cure. While new drugs have dramatically saved lives, many have side effects so debilitating that the quality of life is poor, if not intolerable during the extended lifetime of the patient. But even these need to be produced generically to stop the devastation resulting from corporate refusal to provide these drugs to the millions dying throughout the world who cannot afford these basic lifesaving drugs. Drug researchers should have a cure for AIDS as their ultimate goal.

We recommend the following actions:

a. Increased funding for AIDS education and patient care.

b. Increased funding for comprehensive sex education that includes AIDS education.

c. Increased funding for research focusing on a cure, methods of prevention, and on bolstering the immune system.

d. Improved technology, facilities, laboratories, researchers, staff and personnel to cure AIDS/HIV. A "Manhattan Project" for a cure is required.

e. Complete sharing of information among researchers, funding agencies (including corporations), and the public on AIDS/HIV before awarding the next research grant.

f. More research into better methods of prevention of HIV infection. While we support condom use, better condoms are also required. We support more vaccine research as well as research on prevention methods such as microbicides. People must be provided the means and support to protect themselves from all sexually transmitted diseases.

g. Equal access to AIDS education, treatment and medications for all affected. Accordingly, funding and accountability should be increased.

h. Allowing all prisoners affected with AIDS/HIV in all countries to have the same access as free citizens to education, treatment, preventive measures (including condom use), and medical care.

i. A uniform international definition of AIDS.

j. Protecting the confidentiality of all people diagnosed with AIDS/HIV or tested for HIV.

k. More careful and timely approval of effective AIDS drugs by the FDA.

l. Production of affordable and available versions of patented medicines in all countries.

m. Targeting the young for age-appropriate education about AIDS/HIV and appropriate methods of prevention. We support sex education and the distribution of condoms in schools.

n. Prevention awareness and access to condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. We condemn HIV-related discrimination.

o. Make drug treatment and other programs available for all addicts who seek help.

p. Expand clinical trials for treatments and vaccines.

q. Speed-up the FDA drug approval process.

r. Providing housing for homeless and poor people with AIDS/HIV.

s. Providing treatment for homeless people with AIDS/ HIV.

t. Support for needle exchange programs and for programs to help drug addicts.

u. No mandatory screening for AIDS/HIV; anonymous screening must be available.

v. Lifting the ban prohibiting HIV positive people from entering the U.S. as visitors or as immigrants.[12]

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—2016 Green Party Platform[13]

## Recent news[edit]

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Jill Stein Healthcare News Feed

## See also[edit]

* Jill Stein
* Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ Democracy Now, "Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President," June 22, 2015
2. ↑ The Colorado Independent, "In Colorado, Green Party’s Jill Stein won’t endorse the ColoradoCare universal healthcare ballot measure," August 27, 2016
3. ↑ The Denver Post, "Green Party’s Jill Stein says Colorado leading the way to the future," August 28, 2016
4. ↑ The Colorado Independent, "In Colorado, Green Party’s Jill Stein won’t endorse the ColoradoCare universal healthcare ballot measure," August 27, 2016
5. ↑ CNN, "Jill Stein: I will have trouble sleeping at night if either Trump or Clinton is elected," August 17, 2016
6. ↑ The Washington Post, "Jill Stein on vaccines: People have ‘real questions’," July 29, 2016
7. ↑ Huffington Post, "Scheer Intelligence: Jill Stein-Presidential Candidate," February 8, 2016
8. ↑ Political People Blog, "Dr. Jill Stein on Foreign Policy, Bernie Sanders and a 'Green New Deal,'" February 5, 2016
9. ↑ teleSUR, "US Presidential Candidate Jill Stein: I Want to Be President to Save the World," November 3, 2015
10. ↑ Jill 2016, "Power to the People Plan," accessed July 7, 2015
11. ↑ ProCon.org, "Text: People's State of the Union," accessed July 7, 2015
12. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
13. ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform on Social Justice," accessed August 23, 2016

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