How are you holding up, ?

Who would have thought that in the world's only remaining superpower, COVID-19 infections and deaths are now accelerating faster than any country on Earth.

They constantly tell us that people love their health insurance plans, yet if we're each being honest, what really causes the most worry about the pandemic is not so much the illness itself, but not being able to seek treatment because the co-pays and deductibles are too high.

The President of the United States has become probably the greatest source of misinformation about COVID-19, more than even the worst clickbait websites. Trump is insisting that we all get back to work and die for the Dow, without bothering to ensure that we have enough masks; sanitizing protocols; a test, trace, and quarantine program to protect us from the infected; or even hospital beds or ventilators, in case the worst happens.

As Howie Hawkins said today in his latest campaign update, Trump is killing us.

And Joe Biden? After being completely silent for weeks, he issued a plan that essentially piggy-backs off what state governors are already doing. There's no protection for renters or single-family home mortgagees. The plan calls for just 14 days of paid sick leave and later talks about making the economy resilient, not communities or people, but the economy.

And don't forget that Biden doesn't believe in Medicare for All, at a time when it's clear that public health care is outperforming privately-administered health care like we have here in the United States. Biden's plan keeps talking about "coverage," or Democrat-speak for increasing for-profit health insurance's stranglehold on our human right to be healthy. Joe Biden's health care plan simply does not cover everyone.

Worse, Biden's plan will cost $58 trillion over the next ten years, or $6 trillion more than the status quo in public and private spending. Under Biden’s plan, bureaucratic waste and profits for health insurance and drug companies will be deducted from spending on actual health care on problems like COVID-19.

This sort of dangerous cluelessness spells trouble for the American people. But Howie's plan would save money in many ways, via:

Simplified billing to a single public payer.
Collective power to negotiate lower drug prices.
Elimination of shareholder profits and excessive executive compensation.
A uniform electronic health records system to more efficiently provide care.
A uniform claims data system to reduce fraud.
Global hospital budgets instead of fee-for-service payments that incentive wasteful unnecessary procedures and prescriptions to maximize income.

But if Howie's campaign doesn't put up a strong fight for our right to health care, no one else will. That's why we need your help. Can we count on your donation today?

Consider how far every cent of your donation goes. With just $25, we can make 50 phone calls. With $50 we can buy internet ads for two days to push our platform forward. With $100 we can pay an online organizer at least 4 hours to grow our base. With any amount, we can pay for legal fees for the ballot access court fights we are facing even now.

We can't trust either capitalist candidate to demand what we need: a fully-funded national health service, so that we're ready for the next wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please help with your donation today.

In solidarity,

Team Howie