John:
They did it AGAIN.
Tonight, in a nationally televised debate, corporate media once again used insurance company talking points to attack Medicare For All, repeatedly asking candidates “How are you going to pay for it?”—but never once mentioning that Medicare for All will cut costs for everyday people.
The truth is, costs will go up if we pass Medicare for All—for big corporations and the very, very rich. Meanwhile, the rest of us will get a guaranteed right to health care, no matter how rich or poor we are. That’s why insurance companies and their lobbyists are fighting so hard—and spending so much—to frame the debate. If we pass Medicare for All, their days of profiteering off of other people’s misery are over.
People’s Action is fighting tooth-and-nail to pass Medicare for All, and the best thing you can do to fight corporate greed is to donate $20 dollars to People’s Action right now.
Let me tell you about costs. Danny Crespo was a fierce fighter for your right to health care. He was also diabetic. At one point, he fell into a diabetic coma for three days, and as his medical bills skyrocketed, he saw his income go from six figures to minimum wage. He couldn’t afford the mental health care he needed to deal with the intense stress and shame and, unable to bear the idea of being a financial burden to his family, he took his own life.
That’s the cost of our cruel, for-profit health care system. You only matter to the private insurance industry if they can make money off of saving your life. If not—tough luck.
Danny deserved health care. Danny knew that everyone deserves health care. That’s why People’s Action and our friends at Our Revolution took Danny’s surviving family members and the big box full of Danny’s medical bills to Capitol Hill today to tell his story, and you can see the video of their powerful testimony here.
Tonight’s moderators didn’t ask about the costs of putting corporate greed over people, and that’s why the work of People’s Action is so important. We are carrying Danny’s story and the story of every other family crushed by the private insurance industry into the halls of power, and we won’t stop until everyone in this country has a guaranteed right to health care.
We can win the fight for Medicare for All—but we need you with us.
Please donate today.
In solidarity,
George Goehl
People’s Action
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