Resolution of Health Care by the League of Women Voters of WA State

The following Resolution on Health Care was passed at the State Convention by the delegates to the League of Women Voters of WA 2009 State League Convention in May of 2009.

1. Whereas, the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) Position on health care calls for a health care system that is universal, comprehensive, equitable, and affordable both to individuals and to the nation;
2. Whereas, the LWVUS Position, adopted in 1993, supports a national health plan financed through general taxes in place of individual insurance premiums; and
3. Whereas, a single payer health care plan (publicly financed, privately delivered) can best fulfill these criteria;

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the League of Women Voters of Washington, meeting in Convention, May 2009, send a letter to the LWVUS board within one month, urging that:

• the LWVUS actively support the principle of single-payer national health insurance by vigorously advocating that a single payer legislative proposal be included in deliberations of health care reform by Congress and the Administration; and that
• side-by-side comparative analyses of single payer proposals with other proposals for health reform be part of these deliberations.