"- Adopt Universal Healthcare as a single-payer system.
"- Until the adoption of a single-payer healthcare system, state legislatures should review all insurance company requests to raise rates after the coronavirus epidemic is over for the next three years. Attempts to recoup costs during the coronavirus period by accelerating price increases or reducing coverage should be denied if greater than the rise in the local consumer price index for the urban region.
7. Medicare And Medicaid
"- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should receive all the federal funding necessary to ensure universal emergency healthcare coverage for all, regardless of income or immigration status, and cover, regardless of existing coverage or no coverage, all healthcare treatment for free, including COVID-19 testing, treatment, and eventual vaccinations.
"- For those employed while receiving Medicare coverage, the monthly Medicare deductible payment should be waived until the vaccine for the COVID-19 disease is made available.
"- For those employed while receiving Medicaid, all doctor or hospital costs to the employee or unemployed should be paid for by the state's Medicaid authority. All doctors and hospitals should be required by law to accept Medicaid patients until the vaccine for the virus is made available.
"- Refusal by doctors, hospitals or clinics to accept Medicare or Medicaid patients should result in fines levied on the health provider's annual federal tax payment.
8. No Hunger -- Food Provisioning And Delivery System
"- Emergency food programs must be supported with supplies and food stocks and people to work at food pantries.
"- Seniors, people with disabilities, and families with children must have access to nutritious food. That means expanding the Meals on Wheels program, the school meals programs, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) so that no one goes hungry during this crisis and everyone who cannot leave their home can receive nutritious meals delivered directly to where they live.
"- K-8 students who were receiving meals while in attendance at their school, but are not so doing due to school shutdown, should continue to have meals delivered to their primary residence daily. State programs providing "meals on wheels" for elderly residents or similar programs should be expanded to cover K-8 students.
"- All former cuts to the SNAP (food stamp) program since January 2017 should be restored for all those eligible on paid medical leave, leave from work due to school shutdowns, receiving unemployment benefit payments, or on Medicare or Medicaid.
"- Federal and state governments should undertake whatever measures necessary to ensure the physical delivery of food to local grocery outlets, and to remove bottlenecks to online ordering and delivery of food and necessary household items to residents or local distribution centers, including if necessary mobilization of state National Guard units and requisitioning temporarily of private delivery company facilities and equipment.
9. Farmer Protections
"- Suspend all Farm Service Agency loan payments to protect farmers during this crisis, extend crop insurance and emergency loans to all affected farmers, extend rural development loans, and expand the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to both help alleviate hunger throughout the country and support our farmers during this crisis.
"- Pay for farmer food surpluses to be distributed to charity food banks.
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