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When I waitressed, I had to pay hundreds of dollars per month for the
privilege of paying thousands in deductibles each year for insurance that
didn’t really cover prescriptions.

It was cheaper and the best option financially to just go uninsured and
pray nothing happened.

I remember vividly one day, I decided to walk around and ask everyone I
worked with – waiters, bussers, cooks – what insurance they had. Everyone
had the same answer: none. It made more sense for us to save up the money
we’d otherwise pay on premiums and spend it on actual medicine and care.

That’s one reason why I support Medicare for All.

To this day, I work so my campaign staff is better insured than I am. But
as an employer, I hate that their healthcare is tied to employment. When
people get debilitating diagnoses, why does our system force us to stress
about care ending with employment rather than getting better?

If we had a universal system, the huge sums employers pay for insurance
could go into employees’ pockets in other forms (like raises). The answer
can’t continue to be subsidizing the Affordable Care Act more and more as
premiums go up and up.

The answer is single payer healthcare: Medicare for All.

Having to choose between bankruptcy or your life is a choice that people
shouldn't have to face. It's possible to treat everybody more affordably
with higher-quality care than they ever could get under our current
privatized for-profit system.

Thanks for reading and together let’s transform our healthcare system for
working families.

Alexandria

Alexandria is fighting for a powerful set of policies including Medicare
for All that will reshape our economy, shrink inequality, and address the
climate crisis.

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