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11-year-old Teddy sold lemonade to pay for his surgeries after being hit by a car.

7-year-old Liza set up shop in front of her mother’s bakery, selling treats to pay for her brain surgery.

9-year-old Forrest raised money to pay for his father’s kidney transplant.

Each one of these stories was reported on by local media as a “heartwarming” feel-good story about good-old fashioned American resilience.

This isn’t heartwarming. It’s a horror show.

It’s a damning condemnation of the state of the American healthcare system – and I should know.

Long before I launched my first campaign for office, I served for over two decades as a doctor of Internal Medicine.

I, too, had to navigate the labyrinth of private insurance and the myriad of traps set by insurance executives to wriggle out of paying for essential healthcare.

I, too, had to comfort patients who were confronted with a diagnosis they couldn’t afford to treat – to talk them through the gut-wrenching decisions of rationing care so their families could afford groceries and rent.

This system is evil, and it has to change.

The Democratic party is still running on “protecting” the Affordable Care Act as the solution to the healthcare crisis in America.

In 2010, the year the ACA was signed into law, approximately 48.6 million Americans were uninsured. Today, with all the gaps still present under the ACA, the number of uninsured stands at an estimated 27.1 million.

That seems like an improvement, until you realize that the combined total of uninsured and under-insured people – 77.6 million in 2010 to 86.1 million in 2024 – has actually INCREASED.

Today, roughly 58 million Americans are considered under-insured, meaning that they have health insurance plans so fundamentally dysfunctional that they serve no practical use to the patient – and only serve to line the pockets of insurance executives.

You’re probably on one of these plans – one with premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket minimums so outrageous that even going to the urgent care center for a sinus infection could land you in $1K of medical debt.

Obama had the chance to make the first steps towards universal healthcare and put a public option into the ACA. Instead he caved to his donors in the insurance industry.

Today we have MORE Americans living with medical debt in 2024 than we did before the ACA.

This is the current reality of healthcare in America, under the Democrats’ signature healthcare policy:

- 26 million Americans still have NO health insurance at all.


- Up to 43% of American adults remain UNDER-insured – meaning that your health insurance doesn’t cover your basic medical expenses.


- 41% (or 73 MILLION) Americans are in debt for medical bills.


- At least 68,000 Americans die every year because they can’t access affordable healthcare.

But you know who isn’t suffering? Health insurance companies. Their profits have nearly DOUBLED since 2010 thanks to millions of new mandatory customers on slipshod insurance plans.

Americans spend more on healthcare than any other country on earth for the privilege of living sicker and dying younger than ANY of our peer nations.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Universal healthcare is fully within our grasp, and it is the only solution to the tangled mess of the privatized American healthcare system that leaves millions falling through the cracks.

Imagine a world where you don’t have to pay a copay to see a doctor or collect a prescription.

Imagine a world where you don’t have to spend hours on the phone to find out if your preferred doctor is in network – or to get your visit covered if they’re not.

Imagine a world where, when you are sick, you simply go to the doctor – and they treat you.

No deductibles. No co-pays. No mandatory minimums and no lifetime maximums. Just healthcare.

That is not a wild fantasy. That is the reality in dozens of countries around the world – and it could be our reality, too. Our campaign is fighting to guarantee no American struggles, suffers, or dies because they can’t get basic healthcare. <[link removed]>

<[link removed]>DONATE NOW <[link removed]>When Democrats tell you that healthcare is a human right, what they really mean is that healthcare has the right to be profitable for insurance carriers.

My vision for healthcare is radically different – shaped by decades of experience as a physician and a lifetime of activism.

When I am president, we will push Congress to immediately expand and implement a national Medicare for All program that covers every single American from birth.

We will move to cancel ALL medical debt and to codify patients’ rights (including the right to an abortion and all bodily autonomy).

We will restore public trust in government agencies with transparency and effective oversight, and shut the revolving door between regulatory bodies like the FDA and CDC and the multibillion dollar corporations they are supposed to govern.

All of this and a whole lot more <[link removed]> is attainable.

As your president, my highest responsibility will be the safety and well-being of our people and our planet – not the profits of multinational corporations or the robber barons in the executive suite.

Ours is the ONLY campaign with a path to the White House this November with the credibility and experience to establish healthcare as an unalienable human right. I need your support to reach the millions of Americans who are still looking for a candidate who shares their priorities. Will you donate today?

<[link removed]>DONATE NOW <[link removed]>Human health has always been inextricably connected with society. It’s a question of what and WHO we choose to invest in.

I choose us.

In solidarity and gratitude,

Jill

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