To date, there are only 12,000 on the plan. Health Care for All looks for any way to provide quality health care to those who lack it because the state isn't doing its job. Swan calls state policy inadequate. But Swan predicts that as incentives to deny health care are directed at providers, doctors will remember their Hippocratic Oath. We're about justice and issues pertaining to justice and equality and protection of consumers.
Health care is and has been for the last decade a major issue for our members and allies.
We're hoping to play a role in shaping and driving policy towards where we want it to go. He recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., about juvenile reforms. In Connecticut, Lawlor has been leading the Judiciary Committee's drug policy reforms, and he's currently working on victims' rights and attacking the racial disparity and bias in the criminal justice system. Those hands-on tidbits make the difference between dumb stuff passed in the legislature that never works in the field and exciting changes that have a big impact on the way things work in the field, and I try to focus on that stuff. Lawlor's attitude and ideals have improved a judicial system already considered a national model.