[1]NNU - Medicare for All!



Right now, we’re coming to the end of a critical election year and gearing
up for defensive fights in 2025 and beyond. While we fight back against
right-wing attacks on Medicaid and Medicare, we must also keep making the
case for fixing our broken health care system through Medicare for All.

As we finalize our plans for the new year, we want to provide you with a
refresher on what Medicare for All is and how it would work by reviewing
[ [link removed] ]the six core MFA principles, which you can read and share with others
here.

Today’s email is focused on universal coverage: Everybody in, nobody out.
Under Medicare for All, every person in the U.S. — regardless of race,
sex, gender, country of origin, disability status, immigration status,
marital status, age, and income — would get the care they need regardless
of ability to pay.

The United States does not currently have and has never had a health care
system that provides universal coverage. Instead, we have a patchwork
system of private and public insurance that has resulted in 26 million
people being uninsured and 23 percent of adults being underinsured as of
2023.^1 Even nearly 15 years after the Affordable Care Act was passed into
law, there are still millions of people without health care coverage, or
unable to afford to use the coverage they have due to high copays and
deductibles.

This isn’t normal, . As The
Commonwealth Fund points out, the U.S. is the only high-income country
that does not guarantee health coverage.^2

[ [link removed] ]Graph: The U.S. is the only high-income country that does not guarantee
health coverage.

Despite spending more money on health care than any other OECD country in
the world, the U.S. has worse health outcomes, including the lowest life
expectancy at birth, the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable
conditions, the highest maternal and infant mortality, and more.^3

Even hyper-capitalist Elon Musk can see there’s something wrong with this.
The most efficiently run health care systems in the world have been proven
time and time again to be single-payer systems that provide universal
coverage, and that’s exactly what Medicare for All could do for us!

[3]Tweet by Elon Musk: Shouldn’t the American people be getting their
money’s worth? Quote tweet: The United States has the highest healthcare
admin costs (per capita) compared to OECD countries.

Through Medicare for All, every person in the United States would have
health care coverage from birth to death — no insurance, just care when
you need it.

And when we say Medicare for All, we truly mean for everyone — no matter
immigration status. Health care justice means every person in the U.S.
receives a single standard of quality care, leveling the health care
playing field by eliminating barriers and disparities.

Together, let’s keep up the fight to pass Medicare for All and finally
guarantee health care to everyone in our country.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 

1 - [ [link removed] ]The State of Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S.
2 - [ [link removed] ]U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating
Spending, Worsening Outcomes
3 - Ibid



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