Gene and Linda Farley

Linda and Gene work with Coalition for Wisconsin Health (CWH) Physicians for a National Health Program (CWH) Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Wisconsin Citizen Action (WCA) Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP) and The Madison Institute (TMI).

Gene and Linda live in Verona, WI. And are willing to travel and present free of charge. They encourage contributions to Coalition for Wisconsin Health.

For arrangments, please contact:

esfarley@wisc.edu or call 608-845-8724

Linda and Gene Farley

Our talk is presented in the context that we both believe a caring, sharing just society is a non-violent society and that:

1. Health care is a right in a sharing, caring just society – no person or society can afford otherwise.

· All people benefit from health care - rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, employed or unemployed.

· Businesses large, small, farmers, other self-employed & school districts benefit when all have health care coverage.

· Families and individuals need health care as part of their ability to grow, develop and survive.

To accomplish this requires universal health care coverage. We look at the Canadian Medicare system as a prototype from which we can learn.

2. It is unethical for investor-profit to be made by denying health care to those who often need it the most and are most unable to pay for it – the “unprofitable patient”.

3. Health Care Security for all will come when people finally stand up and demand it.

We present the facts about why the United States has the most expensive, complex, bureaucratic, administratively top heavy and rationed health care system among all the developed nations. A system which provides good care to many, but leaves over 45,000,000 Americans without coverage, over 55,000,000 with inadequate coverage, and is the basis for over 50% of the personal bankruptcies in this country. We ask each of us and all candidates for public office to answer the following questions:

· Why do we support, or not support the western world’s most expensive, complex, bureaucratic, administratively top heavy and rationed health care system – a system that hurts individuals, families and businesses?

· If we believe it needs change, what is that change? Is it real reform, or just another complicating addition to an already overly complicated system? Does it make the most effective use of our excellent health care resources and the money we spend on them?

· If I/you do not support real change, which assures health care for all, why do I/you support additional, piecemeal components that increase administrative costs at all levels, including the doctor’s office, hurts business and US international trade and still leaves millions of people with no coverage of their health care expenses?