The Unite America Party will re-establish privacy and choice through one's own personal health plan rather than through an employer. We will encourage the private sector to offer universal catastrophic health-care insurance, reinforced with health care vouchers for health-care insurance for those who cannot afford it.
Under the new health-care policy, Capital Homesteading credit would be provided to health plan subscribers and health-plan providers--the only two groups with a direct and immediate stake in quality health care. With access to low-cost capital credit and direct-ownership opportunities, these two stakeholder groups could acquire control and become co-owners of comprehensive and competitive health-care-delivery systems. A restoration of power to stakeholders would help restore the sacred relationship between health-care subscribers and providers that has been lost in many of today's Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).
Furthermore, we will condition all taxpayer-supported medical research on royalty-free licensing of all patentable inventions in order to stimulate competition among suppliers and reduce the costs of producing pharmaceuticals and other life-enhancing health technologies.
* Discouraging Judicial Activism that Threatens a Just Constitutional Order
We will encourage the judiciary to return to the original intent of the founders in interpreting and ruling on the U.S. Constitution and discourage judges from making laws that should be left to elected legislators or to the people by referenda.
We will seek rulings from the Supreme Court that restore the original meaning to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments and reinstate the rights and powers of the people under the principles of natural law that govern right and wrong (which the founders understood and drew upon), and under the principles of English common law that existed prior to our nation's founding. Among the fundamental rights of the people that were supposed to be respected and preserved under the Constitution was universal access to "the means of acquiring and possessing property," a right that was expressly acknowledged under the Virginia and Massachusetts Declarations of Rights.
IV. GLOBAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
* Offer More Creative and Just Approaches to Global Conflict Resolution
The Unite America Party will promote a new model of a democratic nation-state that promotes and protects freedom of religion and belief for all individuals, and bans control over the coercive power of the government by any organized religious body. These freedoms are guaranteed under the First Amendment of the Constitution, which opposes laws "respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," as well as the first two articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948.
Based on Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stressing the right to property as a fundamental human right, the new nation-state should not own land or other natural resources. Instead, every child, woman and man should share an equal, lifetime, non-transferable ownership right and share equally in the profits and governing powers for preserving, extracting and renting economic uses of all of Nature's resources. Concerning America's national parks, ownership rights would be transferred to a national Citizens Land Bank governed by citizen-owners.
With respect to human-created economic technologies, rentable space, wealth-producing systems and ideas, and infrastructure, each citizen should be guaranteed equality to secure future ownership opportunities and the monetary and legal means to acquire and earn personal property rights over new and transferred income-producing assets. Economic democracy would thus become the ultimate check on potential abuses of concentrated economic power by any level of government, as well as by those controlling private monopolies of wealth and economic power.
By promoting economic democracy and grassroots empowerment through equal ownership opportunities, the Unite America Party's approach to global poverty eradication and conflict resolution will radically reduce global crime rates. It will also neutralize the influence of preachers of hate and violence who recruit economically powerless persons to enlist as suicide terrorists to use whatever weapons they can acquire to kill innocent citizens. The new nation-state would thus build a more unifying culture and a more just economic foundation for peace, prosperity and freedom in the West Bank/Gaza/Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, poverty-stricken countries, and other unstable countries or regions that breed global terrorists.
* Promote a New Global Standard for Currency Exchange Rates in a Global Common Market to Avoid Outsourcing of Productive Jobs to Countries with Lower Labor Costs
We will convene a 21st-century version of the Bretton Woods Conference. The first one was held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944, convened by the United States with 43 other allied nations during World War II to plan the design of the post-war global monetary and financial order. Besides leading to the formation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the conference decided to establish the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency for global trade.
Today many countries question that global decision, given the instability in the value of the U.S. dollar. (Over the last 70 years, the dollar's value has declined by 4,000 percent when measured by the increased price of an ounce of gold, from $35 to $1,400 today.)
The Unite America Party supports a new global conference to promote a more free and just global monetary and financial order consistent with principles of the Just Third Way. Such a conference would call for adoption of a fixed global standard for measuring the value of an elastic and asset-backed global reserve currency.
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