This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Securing Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring EVERY American will be able to have high quality, affordable healthcare, family planning and reproductive healthcare 1/13
#Democrats believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should be able to access high-quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion. 3/13 #DemPartyPlatform#ReproductiveRights#healthcare
#Democrats will repeal the Title X domestic gag rule & restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood,which provides vital preventive &reproductive health care for millions of people, especially low-income people, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, includ. in underserved areas. 4/13
#Democrats will address the discrimination and barriers that inhibit meaningful access to reproductive health care services, including those based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, income, disability, geography, and other factors. 8/13 #DemPartyPlatform
#Democrats recognize that quality, affordable comprehensive health care; medically accurate, LGBTQ+ inclusive, age-appropriate sex education; & the full range of family planning services are all essential to ensuring that people can decide if, when, & how to start a family. 10/13
#Democrats are proud to be the party of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination in health care on the basis of sex and requires insurers to cover prescription contraceptives at no cost. 11/13 #DemPartyPlatform#ACA#healthcare
#Democrats believe that a person's health should always come first. We will protect the rights of all people to make personal health care decisions & will reject the Trump Admin use of broad exemptions to allow medical providers, employers, and others to discriminate. 13/13
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This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Strengthening and Supporting the Health Care Workforce
Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring the safety of our brave healthcare workers & first responders the other party has no plan at all 1/11
The #COVID19 pandemic has made plain to people across the country that our health care workers are heroes. 2/11 (cartoon by Mike Luckovich) #DemPartyPlatform#HealthcareHeroes
Our doctors and nurses,our home health aides & physician’s assistants,our public health professionals,our home care workers and nursing home workers, and our cleaners and service workers have shown up to work every day despite dire shortages of personal protective equipment. 3/11
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Protecting LGBTQ+ Health
Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring that LGBTQ+ Americans will have access to high quality, affordable healthcare with protection against bias and discrimination .. 1/10
#Democrats condemn the dangerous and unethical regulations allowing doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies to discriminate against patients based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. 3/10 #DemPartyPlatform#healthcare#LGBTQ
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Protecting Native American Health & Protecting and Promoting Maternal Health
Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring EVERY American will be able to have high quality, affordable healthcare options.1/15
Native American tribes have for too long been forced to cope with insufficient access to health care and mental health services, nutrition services, and modern infrastructure. 2/12 #DemPartyPlatform#healthcare#Dreamcatcher
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020.This part is called: Eliminate Racial, Gender, and Geographic Health Inequities
Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring EVERY American will be able to have high quality, affordable healthcare .. the other plans to take it away 1/15
The national statistics on American health care mask profound disparities in insurance rates, access to primary and specialized care, and disparate health outcomes, which are a symptom of those disparities in access. 2/15 #DemPartyPlatform#healthcare#HealthcareEquity
Even before the #COVID19 pandemic, the uninsured rate was nearly three times higher for Latinos and nearly twice as high for Black Americans as it was for whites. 3/15 #DemPartyPlatform#healthcare
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Expanding Long-Term Care Services and Supports
Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring EVERY American will be able to have quality, dignified long-term care options.. the other party has no platform at all 1/10
The #COVID19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of people who reside in institutional settings, such as nursing homes and independent living facilities, 2/8 #DemPartyPlatform#LongTermCare
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. Expanding Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment/Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring EVERY American will be able access affordable care to treat the mind, body and soul.. the other party has no platform at all 1/10
Every American who needs it should be able to access mental health care or substance use disorder treatment, no matter where they live. 2/12 #DemPartyPlatform#healthcare#HealthcareEquity
#Democrats will aggressively enforce the federal mental health and substance use disorder parity law and ensure that health insurers adequately cover mental health and substance use treatment. 3/12 #DemPartyPlatform#healthcare#HealthcareForAll