Thurston County Democrats

The following (and attached) resolution was introduced to the Thurston County Democrats Central Committee at our February 22nd meeting. It is being posted on our web site for review and discussion.

**UPDATED** This was updated at our March 22nd meeting and appears below as adopted.

Resolution on Healthcare Reform

WHEREAS more than sixty years of attempts to improve healthcare in the United States have been marked by only piecemeal improvements;

WHEREAS one of the chief reasons that this piecemeal approach has yielded only minimal results has been obstruction on behalf of the for-profit insurance industry, which does nothing to provide or improve health care;

WHEREAS the most successful improvements have been in such programs as Medicare, Medicaid, and TriCare, all government-sponsored programs;

WHEREAS American healthcare is higher priced and demonstrably less effective that the medical care in nations that have universal coverage;

WHEREAS all of these factors lead to stagnation of the entire economy as well as significant undue pain for the uninsured and the underinsured; and

WHEREAS the Washington State Democratic Central Committee on June 14, 2008, adopted a platform including, on pp. 8 and 9 of the total 15 pages, all these conditions as needing improvement or replacement;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Democrats of the State of Washington, continue to support both of our Senators and those Congressional Representatives who have thus far worked to create a health care reform bill that would provide a strong government-sponsored health care plan to overcome many of the flaws in our national health care system; and

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we pledge to support and work for the re-election of those who support meaningful health care reform and new candidates who will actively support solutions to these problems.

Presented to the Thurston County Democrats for approval at their meeting March 22, 2010.