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The 2024 Paris Olympics came to a close on Sunday with a passing of the
baton to the United States as we await the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. One
major takeaway from this year’s games? Our country’s broken health care
system.

[ [link removed] ]Sports Illustrated: U.S. Athletes are taking full advantage of free
healthcare in Olympic Village. Women’s rugby player Ariana Ramsey’s videos
showcasing her appointments have gone viral, and now many others are
making good use of the medical services offered in Paris.

Since 1932, the Olympic Village has offered free health care to Olympic
athletes and their delegations, including cardiology, orthopedics,
physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry, gynecology, dental, ophthalmology,
and sports medicine.

For American Olympians like Bronze medal-winning U.S. Women’s Rugby player
Ariana Ramsey, this experience came as a shock. Rather than receiving
treatment for injuries, Ramsey caught up on her preventative care while at
the Paris Olympic Village, receiving a Pap smear, eye exam, teeth
cleaning, X-rays, and a new pair of glasses.

In her own words from her viral TikTok, “America needs to do better with
their health care system. There’s no reason why me, an American girl,
should be so amazed by free health care.”

Her experience is not unique, as many athletes from the United States also
failed to realize these services were offered by the Olympic Village, in
contrast to our country’s for-profit system with endless hoops and
hurdles.

The article from Sports Illustrated notes what we have long known to be
true: “A 2022 study by The Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. is the
only high-income country without universal healthcare,” emphasizing how
rare our system is and how far our country is behind the rest of the world
when it comes to offering guaranteed health care.

Getting the care we need should not be this hard, which is why we’re fighting for our own
universal health care system through Medicare for All.

Help us spread the message and continue building on our nationwide
movement for Medicare for All by sharing our social media posts
highlighting Ariana’s experience:

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Together, we can make it so that everyone in this country — not just
Olympic athletes — can receive the care they need when they need it
without fear of cost.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All



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