After yesterday’s Supreme Court decision NOT to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), even Ted Cruz seems to have given up.

Senator Cruz complained about the decision, but he did not call for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Neither did extremists like Senator Josh Hawley (you know, the guy who raised his fist in solidarity with the insurrectionist mob on January 6) or Republican leadership. They all know the law is not going to be overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by Congress.

Now it’s time to look forward. Because we have to do better.

It is a national disgrace that a country with so many resources — with so much medical know-how and technology — has so far refused to do what virtually every other major country on Earth has done and guarantee its citizens health care as a right.

Congress has the power — through the same “reconciliation” process it used to pass President Biden’s American Rescue Plan earlier this year — to improve Medicare so that it covers dental, hearing, and vision and to expand it to millions more Americans.

Tell Congress:

It is long past time for the United States to join the rest of the developed world in guaranteeing health care as a right. As a first step, use the budget reconciliation process to improve and expand Medicare, and do so without delay.

Add your name.

Thanks for taking action.

For progress,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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