I’ll never get tired of sending these late-night emails, because once again, Medicare for All was the biggest and earliest focus of tonight’s debate.
For those keeping count at home, that’s 8 debates so far in this cycle, and 8 times Medicare for All has been front and center. It’s further proof that the work we’re doing at the doorstep and on the phone lines is working. But we can’t rest now:
We have a huge National Strategy Call next Wednesday (2/12) to map out the next phase of our campaign. It’s a pivotal event that will help lay the groundwork for how we’ll keep on winning in 2020. To join, just RSVP here.
Before I go, I want to quickly highlight what was — in my eyes — the quote of the night from Bernie Sanders. It perfectly captures the urgency of this moment, of this fight that we’re in:
“At the end of the day there’s no way around it, you may wanna nibble around the edges, but ultimately we need to rally the American people to tell the drug companies, to tell Wall Street, to tell the insurance companies, to tell the fossil fuel industry — this country belongs to all of us — not a handful of special interests.”
I couldn’t have said it better. Bernie understands, as millions of Americans do, that incremental change isn’t going to solve this crisis. That we need bold transformational ideas and a massive grassroots movement in order to defeat the corporate health care special interests and win Medicare for All.
Thank you for all that you do. Looking forward to talking next week.
Max Cotterill
Organizer
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All