Voters in parts of Massachusetts will be able to vote for #Medicare4All as part of local ballot initiatives - in a total of 20 districts! Incredible work by @MassSinglePayer, @HCNow to demonstrate the support for #SinglePayer legislation.
See video:
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If we get universal health care and my taxes end up going for other people's health care ...
I won't care at all because my premiums already pay even more for other people's health care plus a insurance executive's yacht.
Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy providing cancer, cardiac, GI, rheum drugs at a steep discount. Leukemia drug Imatinib (Gleevec) which usually retails at $9,657 is sold at $47.
Perhaps the greatest disruption in US healthcare this decade.👏🏼
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@DanPriceSeattle There's a very simple, easy to understand and feels-right message: if you're rich, you deserve it; if you're poor, you deserve it.
The psychology of this is remarkably durable. It's also morally reprehensible, as it leads to enormous amounts of avoidable misery.
Billionaire wealth is up 60% in the pandemic. 60%!
How come people are mad at laid-off workers for getting $300 in a pandemic and not mad we put bailed out the stock market with $3 trillion to prop up billionaire wealth while charging them lower tax rates than the poor?
Work-from-home:
*Good for employees
*Good for companies (productivity is up 5%, easier to hire)
*Good for the environment (no more commutes!)
*Good for kids (more time with their parents)
CEOs: BACK TO THE OFFICE NOW CUZ I SAID SO!!
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Republican states are dangerous for your health. Vaccination rates are lowest, new cases have soared, and new deaths have almost doubled in past 2 weeks. Their residents also have the highest medical debt because they don't have expanded Medicaid.
People with medical debt in collections
America: 18%
All other rich countries: 0%
States that expanded Medicaid owe 30% less. Imagine if we expanded universal health care to everyone and cut out profit-sucking middlemen called health insurance companies
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There are 40 #M4M4ALL#MarchForMedicareForAll marches today. Dedicating your entire twitter timeline to shitting on them bc a group of hundreds of speakers has people you don't like in it is embarrassing. People are dying. Organize your own rally or shut up.
Medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcies in the US - and over three-fourths (78%) of those people had some kind of health insurance. #MedicareForAll
You can do everything exactly right, make no mistakes, get the education, work super hard, save up, be everything the System wants you to be…and still get destroyed by it. The American Dream is a cruel mirage for MOST, now.
According to JAMA, medical debt in collections now doubled to $140 billion —making healthcare the nation's largest source of debt in collections.
No other developed country is medical debt or medical bankruptcy a thing. You shouldn’t have to lose your house to get healthcare.