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HEALTH CARE
Supply side strategies used during the past several decades to control costs have reduced the quality of care and decreased patient involvement. EFF believes true health care reform begins with giving the patient more involvement in health care decisions, increasing access to preventive services and general health care, and ensuring cost stability without sacrificing quality.
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care system: high costs and shorter life expectancy EFF
hires former legislator to run Health Care Reform Project Health Care: All about attitude? Emergency Health Powers Act
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- Diagnosing Washington's health care system
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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question: "Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?" - Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46) Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..." |
