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Health care is a human right. But in America, we treat it like a privilege.

One person dying because they can’t afford care is an outrage. That our country allows thousands to die every year is an abomination.

The health care crisis is about to get even worse. The Trump administration is implementing policies that will cause health care premiums to double, triple, or increase even more. Families that are already dealing with rising prices in housing and groceries are going to find themselves choosing between their homes and their health.

Congress is holding show votes to stop the premium spikes, but has no real plan. We must demand a plan to tackle the health care crisis. Sen. Bernie Sanders has six urgent, popular, and achievable reforms that they could pass:

  • Extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits to prevent 20 million Americans from seeing their premiums double overnight.

  • Repeal the $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the ACA to stop 15 million people from losing coverage. These cuts could lead to 50,000 unnecessary deaths per year — that’s unacceptable.

  • Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing. No senior should go without dentures, hearing aids, or glasses because they can’t afford them.

  • Cut prescription drug prices by at least 50% by requiring Big Pharma to charge no more in the U.S. than they do in Europe or Canada. This policy has bipartisan support — let’s make it law.

  • Expand primary health care by funding Community Health Centers, the National Health Service Corps, and Teaching Health Centers to fix the doctor shortage and make care accessible in every community.

  • Ban stock buybacks and dividends, and restrict CEO compensation in health care. Between 2001–2022, top health care companies made $2.7 trillion in profits — and spent $2.6 trillion on stock buybacks and dividends. CEOs made billions while patients suffered. This greed must end.

Send a message to your members of Congress: Stand with Bernie Sanders and FIX health care!

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Thank you,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works

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