The concept of the Imperative Foundation was developed more than 40 years ago when it became evident that the U.S.’s “for profit” health care system would become financially unsustainable and unaffordable for citizens, employers, and the nation. 

Because health care reform was never instituted by congress, U.S. health care also became unjustifiable based upon the more than 100 million Americans who are uninsured, under-insured, and cannot afford their prescription drugs.  And unconscionable, due congress’s enabling the exploitation of citizens, employers, Medicaid, Medicare, and other health programs. 

With congress beholding to the health care industry’s hundreds of millions of capital allocated for congressional elections and lobbying, the nation and our people cannot rely on congress for true health care reform.

Only a proactive alliance of citizens, employers, and communities can compel congress to do so.  The Foundation was formed to build the National Alliance to compel congress to do what it cannot and will not do on its own; reform U.S. health care and transition the nation to universal health care.

Timing

Important elements have become aligned in time and urgency to bring about reform of U.S. health care and transition to universal health care:

• Health care has become unaffordable for citizens, employers, and governments.
• Recognition that our for-profit health care system:
  • Cannot provide affordable and quality health care.
  • Has egregiously exploited our citizen’s, employer’s, and nation’s capital resources to increase the revenues and profits of the health care industry.
• Medicare and Social Security will soon be underfunded.
• Citizens, employers, and communities recognize the need for health care reform and are demanding such.
• The needed technologies to facilitate health care reform have emerged.