SmithieForMayor NYC 2025

A universal healthcare system and insurance that works for New York City

MANHATTAN, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 19, 2025 / Cost of going to med school leave students with close to half a million dollars of student loan debt. To avoid this heavy financial burden, many students now opt for an easier path in the areas of programming, software or system engineering. These are not just a set of less expensive paths to take, studying and becoming proficient in the tech arts take just a few years. And whether you graduate or not, salary is rewarding, work environment is different and the possibility of being an employer is more than ever.

But New York City of today is in need of doctors, nurses, dentists, healthcare specialists and others. And rather than keeping up the fashionable trend of importing trained professionals from other countries - whose values, beliefs and work ethics are far different from ours, it makes sense to encourage local governing bodies and elected officials to step in and encourage young Americans to not give up on these key studies.

This is where I come in, if elected Mayor, city of New York this coming winter.

As part of my NYC Poor Relief Campaign, I am proposing a plan to ease this student debt type of financial problem for Americans studying to become a healthcare professional. My plan for them is in two folds. First, partner with medical and healthcare students whilst in school and take up the responsibility for part of their student loans. They just need to agree to work for the city for the first five years of their professional life after graduation.

Two, set up medical surgeries - a healthcare clinic staffed with doctors, nurses and emergency staff, every quarter of half a mile in all the five boroughs of the city. These clinics will be the first place of call for treatment and diagnosis that does not require hospitalization or overnight hold of hospital beds.

And if cost of ambulance and EMT services is a problem for New Yorkers', then I propose Uberlance - with trained and certified crew, as a cheaper back up for those who cannot afford the cost of paying for an FDNY attached ambulance and EMT services.

This is a key part of my plan for addressing New York City's need for affordable healthcare and insurance. Getting this off ground requires having to adjust our paycheck and wage structure to create an allowance for special NYC healthcare trust fund for every living soul in the city.

This healthcare trust will be set up to address and fund general medicare needs. It will address dental issues - from diagnosis to replacement and surgeries, and will be independent of medicaid or other existing healthcare plans. It will cover pregnancy, maternity leave and pregnancy accidents at work.

In general, I will not only create a universal healthcare system that works for New Yorkers' I will encourage home grown talents to get more involved in medical studies and curb this idea of recruiting healthcare workers from abroad.

I am Abbey Laurel-Smith, an Independent candidate running for Mayor of the City of New York. As your candidate, I favor the general well being of all New Yorkers. And as much as I promise to work to improve the living experience for retirees, students, city workers and low income families, I also promise to work hard on bringing back those high earning out-migrators who left the city for neighboring states during the pandemic.

I put New Yorkers first. Join me, vote better live this general election and let's rebuild your city.
https://www.rebuildnewyork.city

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Contact:
Abbey S Laurel-Smith
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SOURCE: Abbey S Laurel-Smith