Bring Tim Faust to RGV!
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DSA RGV wants to bring the wonderful speaker, Tim Faust, to RGV, to speak on the struggle for health justice, and why America needs single-payer healthcare, now!
Tim Faust is a health care expert, but with a twist! His mission in life is to travel the United States, explaining in accessible, everyday terms, why heath care justice matters. He also likes heavy metal. A lot (which is why he wears that bandana).
As The New Republic recently noted, single-payer is an area where progressives feel the time is ripe for change. Tim Faust is someone who can explain the problems with US healthcare, plainly and humanely.
Faust rose to fame among progressives after appearing on the podcast Chapo Trap House, in April, 2017.
His message is simple. America spends a staggering amount of money on healthcare. But we're not getting value for money, or helping those who need it most. As a result, our health care quality remains low compared to other modern countries. We have less access to preventive care, and shorter stays in hospitals compared to other countries, but we pay more.
“All the incentives are aligned in the worst possible way,” Faust says. That’s why there’s a lot of waste. The waste isn’t solved by spending less, it’s solved by spending it better.”
As he laid out in a Jacobin article, “A Plan to Win Universal Healthcare,” he believes America should expand the federal and state health programs that already exist. Once programs like Medicaid and Medicare cover vastly more people, those programs would have increased negotiating power to drive down the cost of care and be able to set prices for care and services. It would be an existential change for healthcare insurance. But, Faust stresses, it would not be the job destroyer single payer critics claim.
“Under single payer, we’re still going to have massive infrastructure needs,” he says.
With the foundations of a universal health care system set, we could explore new models of care and tailor them to different regions of the country. And we’d have a healthier, more just America.
“It works everywhere else,” he said.
If you want to hear Tim Faust speak, chip in a few bucks, and help the Democratic Socialists of America Rio Grande Valley cover the travel costs to bring this gifted and unique speaker to the region.
Y'allidarity!
Tim Faust is a health care expert, but with a twist! His mission in life is to travel the United States, explaining in accessible, everyday terms, why heath care justice matters. He also likes heavy metal. A lot (which is why he wears that bandana).
As The New Republic recently noted, single-payer is an area where progressives feel the time is ripe for change. Tim Faust is someone who can explain the problems with US healthcare, plainly and humanely.
Faust rose to fame among progressives after appearing on the podcast Chapo Trap House, in April, 2017.
His message is simple. America spends a staggering amount of money on healthcare. But we're not getting value for money, or helping those who need it most. As a result, our health care quality remains low compared to other modern countries. We have less access to preventive care, and shorter stays in hospitals compared to other countries, but we pay more.
“All the incentives are aligned in the worst possible way,” Faust says. That’s why there’s a lot of waste. The waste isn’t solved by spending less, it’s solved by spending it better.”
As he laid out in a Jacobin article, “A Plan to Win Universal Healthcare,” he believes America should expand the federal and state health programs that already exist. Once programs like Medicaid and Medicare cover vastly more people, those programs would have increased negotiating power to drive down the cost of care and be able to set prices for care and services. It would be an existential change for healthcare insurance. But, Faust stresses, it would not be the job destroyer single payer critics claim.
“Under single payer, we’re still going to have massive infrastructure needs,” he says.
With the foundations of a universal health care system set, we could explore new models of care and tailor them to different regions of the country. And we’d have a healthier, more just America.
“It works everywhere else,” he said.
If you want to hear Tim Faust speak, chip in a few bucks, and help the Democratic Socialists of America Rio Grande Valley cover the travel costs to bring this gifted and unique speaker to the region.
Y'allidarity!
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Nicholas Kiersey
Organizer
Edinburg, TX
