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in its interdependent diversity;
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Green Party Platform – Revised
The Platform Committee of the Green Party of the United States has published a draft of its revision of the platform which can be read here. I assisted a little with the education section.
The goal of the revision was to reduce the number of pages in the document to a more concise piece.
Health Care
As time passes I become more and more frustrated with the health care system in the U.S.
Recently I found out that my 18 year old pregnant daughter is facing open heart surgery. On top of the emotional shock and drain this is causing on her and me, the amount of “stuff” she is going through with doctors and insurance is unbelievable. Because she is 18 and not in school, she was just informed the other day that she would not be covered on her dad’s insurance. She turned 18 in December and was told (again just the other day) that not only would she not be covered, but all doctor’s bills that this insurance company had paid would be billed to her to have to pay. This will amount to thousands of dollars.
She is pregnant with no job and now newly diagnosed heart disease.
We are going to see if her state insurance (which served as her secondary insurance as a pregnant teen) will cover those bills, but who knows……
To put it bluntly: Health Care in the U.S. sucks.
One of the many reasons I am a member of the Green Party is because of its position on health care, particularly the section on Universal Health Care:
The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national health care system. The current system’s high costs and widely recognized failures demand that bold steps be taken. The Green Party supports a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health insurance program as the only solution to the current disastrous for-profit system.
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My new role in the GPUS
Recently I was elected as a co-chair of the Green Party of the United States Peace Action Committee. This committee does the peace work for the national party and helps facilitate positions statements and organizes actions and participates in national calls to action.
The Peace Action Committee (GPAX) of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) exists to facilitate the planning and achievement of peace and justice action proposals adopted by the Green Party, and to support and promote the Party’s Anti-War candidates and agenda.
Current projects are centered around the War in Iraq, Sudan (Darfur), and Impeachment.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 