Issues

Health Care

• Access to Healthcare Healthcare: A Right, Not a Privilege

  Where we stand:  America's healthcare system is broken. Expanded access to healthcare must be a top domestic priority, moving us toward the goal of universal access to healthcare for all Americans.   more...

• Medicare Reform Enact a real Medicare drug benefit and fight Medicare privatization

  Where we stand:  As an important first step, PDM supports Democratic legislation, currently pending before Congress, that would enable the Secretary of HHS to directly negotiate drug prices. .   more...

• The Bush War on Science Appointments to Presidential commissions should be determined by scientific qualifications, not political litmus tests. And healthcare policy should be based on good science, not fundamentalist ideology.

  Where we stand:  The Bush Administration has declared war on science. In the Orwellian world of 21st century America, two plus two no longer equals four when public policy is concerned, and science is no...   more...