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ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE, founded by Glover, now covers members for everyday emergencies for just $100/YEAR/adult and $50/YEAR/child. Members also receive discounts with area healers, priority access to forthcoming free clinic, and other benefits. As more people join, the menu of payments expands. All New York state residents may join. Here are testimonials and news stories
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Since neither government nor industry have closed this wound, co-op health plans are returning control of insurance to citizens.
We're creating our own clinics and payment plan. The Ithaca Health Alliance seeks to set a model of Health Democracy for communities nationwide, linking with thousands of health alliances which will follow.
It's already the best deal in the land, for the low-income un-insured. Membership costs $100/year for adults, or $50/year per child, who are covered for everyday emergencies like broken bones, ambulance rides, emergency stitches, burns, certain minor surgeries, and a little bit of dental. They've built enough equity to begin opening clinics. While the emphasis, for developing clinics and interest-free health loans is within Ithaca, they have members throughout New York state, because we make payments to any healer anywhere, within the categories above.
Yet our agenda is broader than clinics, pills, and surgeries, however. We will also address the public foundations of personal health-- clean food, clean water, clean air. And our intent is to more effectively pressure the federal government, by example, to fund a national health system which meets organizational and therapeutic standards set by the Health Democracy movement-- much as grassroots pressure set the standards for organic foods.
Health Democracy will emphasize standards for preventive treatment of communities and the citizens within them. We'll prescribe and fund clinics with personnel who treat the whole person-- the living conditions and emotional bases of ailments. We'll sooner prescribe warm hands to cold machines, and rely on them both. We'll prefer to prescribe natural rather than chemical remedies. We'll prescribe and finance new systems for feeding, fueling, housing and moving America's cities, investment in which will be healthier and more profitable than war.
Co-op health plans contribute toward universal coverage, moreover, because even were universal coverage enacted there would be need for genuinely nonprofit care, to keep costs down. Members of the U.S. Health Alliance will also be ready to defend the national plan from inevitable attacks.
Health Democracy, whose citizens are both owners and voters, begins with everyone who sees the need for immediate remedies for the un-insured.
PURCHASE "HEALTH DEMOCRACY"
Glover teaches at Temple University and is available to consult with communities seeking to establish co-operative health care.
[email protected] (215) 805-8330
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