Peter Mathews Democrat For Congress - CA 42

Professor of American Government

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Medicare for all, single payer healthcare

Medicare For All

Single Payer Healthcare

The number of Americans without health insurance increased to 27.5 million in 2018 according to federal data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That was up from 26.5 million people in 2017. It is unacceptable for the United States to be the only advanced industrialized nation with millions of uninsured people.

The only adequate solution to this crisis is to improve Medicare and expand it to cover all Americans. It is the ethical, moral, rational and affordable path to fully cover all people in the U.S., just as Canada has done for over fifty-five years. The Medicare for All non-profit, government funded insurance system, has much lower overhead costs, unlike our present unwieldy, wasteful, and inadequate for-profit system. In Canada, the cost per person is 2/3 of what it costs in the U.S. An American Medicare for All system will also deliver health care through private doctors and nurses, give patients their choice of doctors, and will not have co-payments and deductibles. This will save the taxpayers and patients a tremendous amount of money right away. By allowing everyone in the U.S. to buy into this non-profit, Single-Payer Universal Healthcare system we will reduce the existing costs of healthcare (and make Medicare cheaper, too!). The health care dollar will go directly into medical and mental health care for the patient and not into the pockets of millionaire CEOs, and billionaire Wall Street investors!

Expanded Medicare for All will include complete vision, dental, and mental healthcare. It's preventive care aspects will bring true healthcare, which is about the whole self.

All other developed nations in the world have universal healthcare. We must catch up to the rest of the world by ensuring all people living in America have real healthcare coverage, and that we don’t leave Americans broke with insurmountable medical debt.

Because Peter Mathews believes that health care is a human right connected to the Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Peter Mathews will work tirelessly in Congress to cancel medical debt for all Americans. He will fund this by closing unnecessary corporate tax loopholes, ending corporate welfare, establishing a wealth tax on billionaires, taxing income brackets over $10 million at 70%, and ending waste, fraud, abuse, and overspending in the Military-Industrial-Complex.

You can count on Peter to fight for people-centered healthcare more than any other candidate, because he’s the ONLY candidate that doesn’t accept money from pharmaceutical lobbyists, or health insurance corporations, and for-profit HMOs.

Peter Mathews Endorses: H.R. 1384 - the Medicare for All Act of 2019, which will have great positive effects on the American people. It will enable them to take less time off of work, to keep more of their hard earned money, to reduce homelessness, mass incarceration, and prevent the spread of communicable and dangerous disease. This is because, under Medicare for All, the American people will finally have high quality, cost effective, patient centered, comprehensive medical and mental health care.

So far, we Americans have tried almost every other system of healthcare, and we know it doesn’t work. The Affordable Care Act was a step forward in attempting to insure the previously “uninsurable.” But it still left costs far too high. The prices of co-pays, premiums, and deductibles have been skyrocketing. We’re paying more for less health care coverage every year. The real solution to all of our health care problems is a Single Payer, Comprehensive, Universal Medicare for All Healthcare System.

42nd Congressional District of California

For U.S. Representative


Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, Bellflower, Downey, Huntington Park, Bell Gardens, Bell, Cudahy, Commerce, Maywood, Florence-Graham, Catalina Island, San Clemente Island, Walnut Park, Vernon

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Fighting for Environmental, Economic and Social Justice

Meet Peter Mathews

Educator Peter Mathews is running for Congress to rebuild an America that works for All of Us, the 99%, not just for Billionaires.

Peter Mathews envisions the role of government as a positive instrument in guaranteeing our unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Peter Mathews signs the "No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge", also signed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Learn More

Peter Mathews signs the "No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge"

Peter Mathews pioneered the call for a Green Tech New Deal eight years ago. As our Congressman, Peter will take on big polluting corporations and lead the fight for today's Green New Deal inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

On CNN Peter Mathews Challenges Trump on Labor, Environment, Trade, Asylum and Immigration Policies.

By taxing billionaires and closing corporate tax loopholes, Peter will fund governmental, as well as entrepreneurial Green Jobs and infrastructure that will transform America and the world, prevent climate and economic catastrophe, and reduce the huge gap between rich and poor.

Peter says, "We must move away from selfish, shortsighted policies that are destroying people's lives and our climate through Corporate Deregulation and Tax Cuts for the Rich started by Reagan and pumped up by Trump."

On KTLA-5 Peter Mathews tells Trump: Medicare for All Single Payer Healthcare, Fair Trade with High Wages and Strong Environmental Standards, and Immigrant Human Rights, are best.

Peter believes that we are all truly part of the same human family. In Congress, he will continue his life-long fight for equal treatment with human dignity for all. Inside and outside Congress, Peter Mathews will fight against prejudice, discrimination, and unequal treatment based on race/ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion and age.

In foreign affairs, Peter Mathews says we should move away from policies of unnecessary military interventionism that are driven by the Military-Industrial-Complex. U.S. foreign policy should be based on international cooperation guided by economic, environmental and social justice for the working people of all nations.

On CNN, Peter Mathews, author of Dollar Democracy on Steroids, calls for Congress to proceed with Trump impeachment.

Peter Mathews declares his candidacy for Congress at Climate Strike 2019 to combat Climate Change.