1. Whereas: We affirm and derive principles from the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the Mission of the World Health Organization, and the policy requirements of the United States IRS non-profit 501(c)(3) Health Corporations Law, and seek to assert and establish health care as a public good, not a commercial or market commodity and to provide the highest attainable standard and comprehensive spectrum of preventive, primary, specialty, mental, psychological, sensory, surgical, nursing, rehabilitation and habilitation, public health, dental, pharmaceutical, and home and community-based lifetime health care supported by all relevant training and research to assure all people possess freedom from fear and a state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity as a fundamental right of every person in California
2. Further, that this right must exist for every Californian without distinction of race, religion, gender orientation or identity, disability, political belief, geographic location, or economic or social condition and that local, state, and the federal government has an affirmative duty as a guarantor of such democratization and rightful health care to its people.
3. Further, the State of California, as ordained by its Constitution, is responsible for its people's health and wellbeing of its people, the practice of medicine, public health, and the training of health professionals and their regulation. Both a State duty to health equity and the authority to achieve it are provided by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
4. Further, that the health of all people is fundamental to the attainment of maximum economic autonomy, cultural productivity and expression, peace, and security and, whereas its provision is dependent on the people's democratic participation and the coordination of efforts across neighborhoods, municipalities, counties, regional agencies and the health workforce in California.
5. Further, no financial burden of any kind or cost barrier shall exist for those seeking to obtain necessary health care. This Act shall end all individual and family out-of -pocket costs, co-pays, deductibles, and insurance premiums, replacing these with equitable statewide and federal public financing, and that reorganization of health care financing under a unified (single-payer) public financing mechanism will serve as a major source of new California revenue generation based on savings, socially -efficient reallocations, and financial reinvestments
6. Further, that economic prosperity and major savings will result from cost-effective and prudent reductions of existing administrative costs and similar savings achieved by eliminating existing competition-based, financial market model delivery systemic waste, price-gouging, fraud, and inefficiencies, freeing California industries from the relentless cost escalation and spiraling burden of providing private medical insurance coverage for employees, and stimulating an entrepreneurial expansion among individuals free from the fetters of health care dependent on employment, ending "job lock."
7. Further, informed opinion and active democratic participation, familiarity, and trust on the part of the public are of the utmost importance in the planning, delivery, and continuous improvement of healthcare in California.
8. Further, that health care services in California are currently funded by over 70% public tax dollars, billions of which are derived from public employee sources, that these funds will form the majority of funds in the new system envisioned herein, and that they must not be appropriated for profit nor diverted from the highest quality universal health care system, unlike the current failed profit-driven paradigm.
9. Further, in the face of the existential crisis of climate change and its associated impacts on life on earth, a just and responsive health care system must address the vast grave health consequences of fire, flood, desertification, land submergence, biological pandemics, food, air and water pollution, and that the provision and transformation of universal health care must both prepare for such impacts and provide for such care in a manner scrupulously carbon-free in all its energy and structural developments.
10. Therefore, this Act intends to meet these values, goals, challenges, and standards by establishing the California Life Time Care Health Act (CALTHA) system shall be accountable to all Californians, based on the seven (7) pillars listed below