Healthcare
34. HEALTHCARE
MPA supports widespread healthcare access without unnecessarily placing the entire system under government control.
Priorities include:
• Patient choice
• Provider competition
• Price transparency
• Insurance portability
• Prescription-drug competition
• Generic and biosimilar competition
• Expanded provider capacity
• Mental-health capacity
• Emergency treatment
• Reduced bureaucracy
• Protection of the physician-patient relationship
Healthcare policy should focus heavily on why healthcare costs so much, rather than endlessly debating only who pays the inflated price.
35. PUBLIC HEALTH & PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS
America should be prepared before the next pandemic.
Maintain:
• Medical stockpiles
• Domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Testing capability
• Disease surveillance
• Hospital surge capacity
• Emergency logistics
• Transparent public-health data
Government should clearly distinguish among:
• Dying from a disease
• Dying with a disease
• Cases where causation is uncertain
Public reporting methodologies should be transparent and independently reviewable.
Political incentives should never determine medical statistics.
63. MENTAL HEALTH
America needs significantly more mental-health capacity.
Expand:
• Psychiatric care
• Crisis response
• Treatment capacity
• Community treatment
• Appropriate inpatient capacity
• Mental-health professionals
Involuntary treatment should require strong due-process protections.
Mental illness should not automatically become a criminal-justice problem simply because treatment infrastructure does not exist.
PROPOSED / DRAFT — SENIOR HEALTH COVERAGE & INDEPENDENT-LIVING SUPPORT
Every senior should have dependable access to medically necessary healthcare, prescriptions, preventive care, mental-health care, vision, hearing, dental care, rehabilitation, and appropriate long-term-care support without being forced into poverty.
Medicare eligibility should remain available before the proposed Social Security full-retirement age of 72. Raising the full-retirement age must not create a seven-year health-coverage gap. Seniors should receive clear choices among qualified coverage options, protection for preexisting conditions, transparent prices and networks, and an annual limit on unaffordable out-of-pocket exposure.
SENIOR NAVIGATOR AND SOCIAL-WORK ACCESS
Every county or regional service area should provide access to a qualified senior navigator or licensed social worker through an accountable public agency or contracted nonprofit. Assistance should include:
• Medicare and insurance enrollment
• Social Security and retirement-benefit applications
• Prescription-assistance programs
• Housing and property-tax relief
• Nutrition and transportation services
• In-home care and caregiver support
• Fraud, abuse, neglect, and exploitation reporting
• Veterans’ benefits
• Advance-care and legal-service referrals
• Appeals when benefits are wrongly denied
Services should be available in person, by telephone, online, and through home visits when mobility or medical need requires them. Seniors retain control over their choices and personal information unless a court has found incapacity or an immediate emergency requires narrowly limited intervention.
AGING AT HOME
Public programs should prioritize safe independent living and aging at home when clinically appropriate and preferred by the senior. Home modifications, accessible transportation, respite care, visiting healthcare, meal delivery, and caregiver support should be compared fairly with the cost of institutional care.
No senior should be placed in a facility merely because navigating fragmented programs is difficult. Facilities and in-home providers must meet enforceable safety, staffing, transparency, and abuse-reporting standards.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Last updated: August 24, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.3.