Healthcare Reform

Key Summary

We hold that healthcare is a basic human right and the government has a responsibility to assist in its provision. However, due to the economic situation the US finds itself in as well as the model of the capitalist economy, we do not believe in a Medicaid/Medicare for all solution. At least not immediately. Our solution comes in means to reduce prices, force insurers to pay more, lower premiums, provide subsidies directly to Americans rather than insurance companies and hospitals, lower pharmaceutical prices, and establish a co-payer system where the government subsidizes healthcare bills based on income. 


Priorities of Healthcare Reform

  • Ensuring no one is forced to choose between life and bankruptcy.

  • Lowering the costs of healthcare by lowering pharmaceutical and administrative costs.

  • Transferring subsidies from major corporations and giving them to individual citizens costs of care.

  • Maintaining the wellbeing and compensation of American health care workers.

  • Ensuring necessary regulations that limit corporate power do not overcome the economic output.

  • Ensuring corporations cannot unnecessarily pass the costs of lost subsidies or taxes onto patients/clients.

What the numbers say

The Failure of Humanity

Annually, over 45,000 Americans die because they can’t afford healthcare costs

-American Journal of Public Health

Over 6% of Coloradans lack health insurance

-USA Today

In 2025, the United States spent over $5.7 trillion on healthcare costs (over 18% of the GDP)

-STAT

Over 30% of Americans skipped healthcare payments in 2025 due to high costs

-KFF Health Care Costs Survey

The United States pays over $15,000 per capita on healthcare costs while EU countries average $6,000

-Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service

Since 2020, family premiums have increased by 26%

-KFF

What could be done?

  • The government can allow pharmaceuticals to be imported.

  • The United States can nationalize billing and require medical centers receiving subsidies to utilize it in order to lower healthcare costs.

  • Install caps on premiums; this would mandate that insurance companies can’t raise premiums above a certain rate otherwise pay assessments.

  • Transfer covid era tax premiums and rebates for Medicare Advantage to pay for direct subsidies for out-of-pocket costs.