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<br /> <br />revenues to support other law enforcement activities, education, <br />transportation, environmental and other government programs. <br /> <br />Legislation for legalization should also include provisions for the <br />review, vacation, and expungement of federal arrests and <br />convictions for minor marijuana-related offenses; and <br /> <br />6) Support Medicare for All – As efforts move forward at the federal <br />level to improve and/or replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act and <br />address the ever-growing need for health care services and <br />increases in health insurance premium costs, efforts should move <br />forward to consider the “Medicare for All” legislation. Medicare for <br />All would expand the Medicare program to provide all individuals <br />residing in the United States and territories with free, tax-funded, <br />medically necessary health care including primary care and <br />prevention, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, <br />mental health services, dental services, and vision care. This <br />Medicare expansion would be paid for in part through taxes (in <br />place of no longer needed insurance premiums), but also by <br />savings realized through the provision of preventative universal <br />healthcare and the elimination of insurance company overhead <br />and hospital billing costs. Some analysis of a Medicare for All plan <br />estimate immediate savings at $350 billion per year. Others have <br />estimated long-term savings amounting to 40% of all national <br />health care expenditures due to expanded preventative health <br />care service delivery and the resulting averted costs for major <br />health care services. <br /> <br />This the 13th day of November 2018. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />________________________________ <br />Mark Dorosin, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />