John,

Last week, I shared a deeply personal video with my wife Maria, a cancer survivor, about why our country has a moral obligation to implement Medicare for All as soon as possible. The video plays off the famous Harry and Louise ad that special interests used to crush health reform in the 1990s.

That commercial tried to scare people into accepting our broken for-profit healthcare system by fear-mongering. Nearly 30 years later, it’s more clear than ever that it's our cruel current system that's generating backbreaking bills.

Let us know here if you agree that every person deserves health care without the possibility of financially ruinous debt!

Dealing with cancer is deeply painful, and the last thing families want to be worrying about during treatment is their financial future. While we were lucky that Maria was able to get treatment without being bankrupted by medical bills, so many families are not so fortunate.

Shockingly, a 2019 study concluded that 66.5% of all personal bankruptcies are tied to medical debt — nearly two-thirds of the total!

Meanwhile, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries are busy monetizing that suffering by gouging desperate sick people through sky-high drug prices and insurance premiums.

Here in America, we are getting worse care for higher prices than anywhere else in the developed world. The stakes are too high to continue to let special interests drown our political system in cash to keep their deadly system in place.

One of the reasons I’m running for Senate is to change our healthcare system to ensure that no one has to choose between medical care and crushing debt. Maria’s story, and the story of millions of other Americans, are why I support Medicare for All.

John, I’m writing this email to get your take; you know where Maria and I stand. Do you support Medicare for All?

Let me break it down in a different way. I support Medicare for All because:

No Americans should worry about losing health insurance when they lose a job.
No Americans should be one fall or one slip away from bankruptcy.
No Americans should hesitate to retire just because they’re years away from Medicare.

I’ve spent my entire career working for working people and I’m determined to bring that focus to the U.S. Senate. In my opinion, that starts with advocating for Medicare for All. Do you agree?

Where do you stand?

Thank you for hearing me out,

Tom Nelson