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Dr. Jill Stein, running for president as a Green Party candidate, said if elected she would honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’ s legacy by not only embracing his call for civil rights and racial equality but continuing his struggle for peace, economic justice and universal health care. Dr. Stein, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, said she would make health care a right and enact a single payer, expanded and Improved Medicare for All. In 1968, Dr. King said that
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
Stein stated:
All Americans are entitled to quality health care. We need to also control the excessive costs of health care, starting with eliminating the expensive and wasteful practice of health insurance, where profits are increased by denying access to health care. It is a scandal that President Obama, who has long admitted that single payer is the best solution, instead copied Mitt Romney and mandated that all Americans buy health insurance.
The last major speech Dr. King delivered, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution”, was on poverty. Speaking at the National Cathedral in Washington D. C., King talked about how the poor were invisible in America. When he was killed in Memphis four days later, while supporting the striking garbage workers, King was organizing a massive march in D. C. to launch a new campaign to end poverty. King called for
a campaign for jobs and income, because… the economic question was the most crucial that black people and poor people, generally, were confronting.
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Sunday, January 15th
