U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell are officially reintroducing Medicare for All legislation in just a few weeks, on April 29th!
In preparation, we need to build as much support as we can for both the House and Senate versions of this bill to provide guaranteed health care to everyone across the country.
The more members of Congress who join as original cosponsors of this legislation before the reintroduction, the more power we demonstrate as a movement and the closer we’ll get to passing it into law.
It’s clear that across party lines, people are fed up with the status quo of our deeply broken, for-profit health care system. Under our current system, people from all walks of life face a difficult time affording and getting the care they need from the providers they want.
For example, take a look at what’s happening in Texas: Blue Cross Blue Shield just dropped a major hospital system from its network due to a contract dispute, leaving patients in the lurch.
After negotiations between this private insurance company and a regional health system with more than two dozen hospitals broke down, thousands of insured people may no longer go to their care provider or hospital just because middlemen are arguing over how much to pay each other.
Under Medicare for All, problems like this would be solved by replacing private insurance companies with a single public plan that pays for all medical costs. In fact, it’s this very complexity of our fragmented health care system that is a primary driver of increasing costs. We currently spend in excess of $500 billion per year in unnecessary bureaucratic costs. Medicare for All will simplify our system by eliminating fragmentation and ensuring more seamless, efficient, and streamlined administration.
In solidarity,
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
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