Medicare for All Middle TN

Fighting for healthcare as a human right in the US. Working group of @MidTNDSA

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

Why would you want to support “private healthcare options?” No one likes their insurance in the US. Remember when you supported #MedicareForAll ?

[Middle Tennessee DSA 🌹 @MidTNDSA]

Almost $1,400 since we launched on Friday! It’s phenomenal! Can you help keep this streak going? Every dollar will erase $100 of medical debt for Tennesseeans!! We’re on our way to that $10,000 mark already!!

[Middle Tennessee DSA 🌹 @MidTNDSA]

Love to see it, @AftynBehn

[Middle Tennessee DSA 🌹 @MidTNDSA]

HELP RAISE $10,000 to ABOLISH $1,000,000 of MEDICAL DEBT IN TENNESSEE! https://t.co/W5nViVbYE5 billion of medical debt burden working people in America. Medical debt is the leading cause of debt collections and personal bankruptcy, (1/9)

[Jesse Brenneman @Jesse_Brenneman]

The thing about insurance is that, yeah, it costs a lot of money, but at the end of the day, when you really need it, it also won’t help you.

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

A sad reminder that health insurance exists for some people to profit, not to keep us healthy. See this 🧵 for something you can do. #MedicareForAll

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea.

In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.

[Physicians for a National Health Program @PNHP]

💥 New report from PNHP tallies how much health insurance corporations overcharge taxpayers to administer the so-called “Medicare Advantage” program.

We are being fleeced to the tune of up to $140 billion.

Every. Single. Year.

Full report here: https://t.co/SWAmwAI1lg

[Lindsay Ballant @lindsayballant]

I can’t with this today

[Mr. Madam Adam @MisterMadamAdam]

Please call @SenSanders and tell him to use his role as Chair of the senate Health committee to fight COVID Denial and to not let the public health emergency expire.
Staffers are happy to talk to us (be polite to staffers).
His office number is 202-224-5141

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.

[Artie Vierkant @avierkant]

In our book Health Communism we talk at length about what we call the “worker/surplus” binary and it’s hard to think of a better example of it than this proposal by House Republicans to disallow receiving unemployment insurance and disability benefits at the same time

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

Our system incentivizes further financialization and profit seeking behavior. Our well-being shouldn’t be someone else’s to exploit for profit. #MedicareForAllNow

[Lauren Weber @LaurenWeberHP]

Private equity groups are scooping up eye care physician practices nationwide as money-making opportunities grow as the U.S. population ages.

And as billions pour into the space, costs are going up.

My latest for @KHNews @FortuneMagazine
https://t.co/j6teLMrckY

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

"You do you" is the natural next stage of neoliberal health policy

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

Public health should never be a new profit-making opportunity, but especially not in a pandemic. We need #MedicareForAll because our health shouldn’t be for sale.

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

Here is video of @AshishKJha46 saying “we need to get out of that business” of buying tests, vaccines and treatments (a lie) and his “hope” to see “the commercialization of almost all of these products.” Seeing his words is even more ghoulish than reading them.

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

Far more of us are one bad diagnosis away from the financial edge than some realize. #MedicareForAll is the fix we need.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

this country is broken

[Brett Kelman @BrettKelman]

Tennessee surpassed 27,000 COVID-19 deaths today, per the latest CDC data. That is the equivalent of the entire population of White County.

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

When healthcare exists for profit instead of helping people, you can see the difference. #MedicareForAll

[Andy Tran @andy23tran]

What's going on here?

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

Remember that brief period where we recognized communicable illness was a threat to all of us. What if we did it again? #MedicareForAll

[Benj @benjrainwrite]

Darkly funny that they had to cover up “free”

[Medicare for All Middle TN @m4aMidTN]

Insurance balances potentially life-saving care against their ability to make profit. For-profit insurance is always a for-profit venture. Our health shouldn’t be endangered for profits. #MedicareForAll