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The MilitantNEW YORK—
The Socialist Workers candidates are campaigning for “guaranteed lifetime medical care for everyone,” said Maura DeLuca, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate, at a campaign rally here September 11.While both Democratic and Republican party politicians in Washington want to exclude undocumented workers from receiving any medical care at government expense, and some even want to prevent them from buying it,
“we demand the best quality medical care for every single person in this country, U.S.- or foreign-born, with or without papers,” said DeLuca. “And we oppose any restrictions on how much care or what type of treatment you can have.”President Barack Obama has made it clear he will not include government funding for any abortion services in his plan, DeLuca noted.
“The Socialist Workers candidates say no to any restrictions on women’s right to abortion—no to requirements that women receive ‘counseling’ prior to an abortion, that they view pictures of the fetus, that they wait a day to have the procedure, or that they obtain parental approval if they are not adults,” she said.The capitalist rulers are using the health-care debate to divide workers and break down class solidarity, she said.
“They claim undocumented workers are getting health care at the expense of U.S.-born ‘taxpayers.’ They pit Medicaid patients against privately insured patients. Our campaign rejects this.
“We also reject the idea that those of us who don’t have insurance because we can’t afford it are ‘irresponsible.’ I am one of those workers, a garment worker who can’t pay the insurance premiums,” DeLuca said. “I am not ‘irresponsible.’ The capitalist rulers in their contempt for working people are now demanding that we all buy insurance, one more way we are being forced to pay for their social and economic crisis.” more:
http://www.themilitant.com/2009/7337/index.shtml
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