Invitation to Redesign & Reimagine Health Care In California

We Must Redesign And Reimagine Health Care In CA!!

Over the past 10 months, a team of volunteer health care economists, advocates, community organizers, and experts from across the nation have joined together to forge the most imaginative and complete policy model framework for a publicly owned, democratically planned, governed and funded, public health system, the California Life Time Care Health Act (CALTCHA) for you to improve and ensure it meets your intimate needs.

Your Input?

We are now seeking input* from all grassroots stakeholders to improve this guaranteed, affordable, non-profit, portable, locally accessible, comprehensive, single highest quality tier, and lifelong health care system to complement the actual legislative bill, the California Nurses Association Assembly Bill 1400 (Kalra). Our aim is to ensure that the highest service standards are understood and included in what Californians ultimately establish for themselves.

Profit over People

Our current medical illness management system incorrectly referred to as our “health care system,” is an ingenious and cruel profit-driven machine where illness and suffering are made commodities to channel wealth to the top corporate owners of the medical, industrial complex (Big pharmaceutical companies, hospital cartels, the private insurance [middlemen] network and the top fraction of the most highly paid doctors who in large part represent organized medicine).

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Money Wasted

The multilayered and deliberately complicated administration, billing, marketing, and payment schemes of our system, siphon off nearly one-third of every dollar spent, borne by patients and their families, returning nothing. Industry greed has inflated the annual average medical cost to $11,000 per person and enforces a profound interference and arbitrary bureaucratic obstruction to a health professional (doctor and dentist, etc.) decision making, that spreads insecurity and lethal care delay in our entire culture. Fully one-third of all Californians are uninsured or unable to afford the premiums, copays, or deductibles for the care they need. Despite all this, we pay twice as much annually as all other industrial countries despite experiencing the worst of all health outcomes.

Medical Apartheid and Institutional Racism

“Health Care” is not for sale anywhere, and the public health system, once the pride of CA, has been crippled through decades of underfunding and used primarily to serve our lowest and stigmatized economic members of society. All data shows our current medical illness system operates within a construct of institutional racism negatively impacting the most vulnerable Californians. The history of medical apartheid in the system has created a justifiable mistrust of the medical professional community. Social determinants including employment, education, nutrition, housing, transportation, and environmental safety are not considered in the current system that are critical factors in our health and wellbeing.

Root Change Is Essential

An expanded, culturally competent, new health professional workforce devoted to compassionate service must be recruited, trained. Tuition must be provided for all public post-secondary, health professional education in a year-for-year exchange for service in urban and rural “health deserts.” Essential clinics organized by the local community with local public health departments, staffed by responsive health care provider's must be located in every neighborhood to end the negative, disparate health outcomes from years of racialized and poorest community marginalization. CALTCHA will buy out all population medical care debt, among other inspiring corrections, to begin to fill the huge gaps in our care system.