John,
Public outrage over private insurance companies and our broken, for-profit healthcare system is currently at a high — and we can understand why.
The United States is the only high-income country in the world without universal healthcare. To make matters worse, we spend more than most countries on healthcare, yet our health outcomes like life expectancy and infant mortality rate are worse.
People are sick and tired of arguing with insurance companies to cover the care they need, waiting months on end to see providers, and ending up in heaps of medical debt while insurers, hospitals, and Big Pharma rake in historic profits. A new poll backs this up:
It’s clear: our country is long overdue for a universal, single-payer healthcare system that guarantees care and coverage for everyone, regardless of their income level — which would be created through Medicare for All.
Justice Democrats’ Rep. Pramila Jayapal is a cosponsor of the Medicare for All bill in Congress, and every one of our members supports it. But with corporate Democrats abandoning their commitment to Medicare for All over the past few years, we need to elect more working-class, progressives to Congress if we’re going to have enough MFA champions to pass it into law!
Too many Democrats in power take campaign contributions from the healthcare industry and its lobbyists. We need to change that if we’re going to pass Medicare for All, transform our broken system, and finally achieve healthcare justice in the United States.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats