Healthcare Access

The GNA Platform

Press the politicians to support:

• A cost-efficient, publicly-funded, universal health care program with a preventive focus, a major emphasis on better nutrition, physical exercise, stress reduction, reduced exposure to toxins, and the use of complementary, natural medicine and practices.
• The "precautionary principle" as a foundation for public health, environmental. and consumer safety legislation.
• The right of consumers to choose the type of health care they want and support the right of practitioners to practice freely within the scope of their licensure.
• Legislation that would allow and protect first amendment rights to cite scientific information that supports the benefit of organic and natural foods and dietary supplements.
• Strict organic standards and consumers' rights to know if their food has been genetically engineered or irradiated, as well as country of origin labeling.
• Local, state, and federal legislation either legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana, and a new drug policy, similar to policies in Northern Europe, that institutionalizes "harm reduction," rather than incarceration, as the central pillar of our drug policy.

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Resources

• The Universal Health Care Initiative
  This campaign, initiated by the American Medical Student Association, is an appeal to common sense and universal access to health care.
• NCSL Healthcare Access Page
  The National Conference of State Legislatures is the host for this page which examines the access crisis from a sober political perspective.
• Massachusetts Health Care Reform
  The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured sponsored this report on the health care reforms undertaken in Massachusetts.