John, did you see the New York Times article on Friday?

It revealed that even the C.E.O.s of health insurance companies know that
Americans pay much more for healthcare than any other country in the
world.

"Patients and insurance companies in the United States pay higher prices
for medications, imaging tests, basic health visits and common operations.
Those high prices make health care in the U.S. extremely expensive, and
they also finance a robust and politically powerful health care industry,
which means lowering prices will always be hard."

This comes straight from a newly released report by the International
Federation of Health Plans, a group representing the C.E.O.s of health
insurers worldwide. For almost everything on the list, "there is a large
divergence between the United States and everyone else."

Currently only two candidates for President, Senators Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren, have committed full support for passing Medicare for All
in their first term. It's time to get all the candidates -- at all levels
of office -- to join the fight.

[ [link removed] ]Call on all candidates running for President, Senate and House in 2020
to commit full support for Medicare for All now. No one in America should
die or go bankrupt because they can't afford healthcare. Add your name >>>

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Look, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren get it.

So do other progressive leaders in Congress like Pramila Jayapal and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but there’s still work to be done to get a
majority of the House and Senate to pass Medicare for All.

And if there’s one thing the presidential race has made clear, it’s that
way too many Democrats would rather repeat health insurance industry
talking points designed to scare people, than fight to make healthcare a
human right in America like it is in every other major country in the
world.

In the face of Republicans hellbent on destroying Obamacare and Trump
directing the Dept. of Justice to use any means necessary to get the
courts to overturn it, Democrats can’t fight back by defending the current
broken system. Because the bottom-line is millions of Americans still
don't have health insurance and millions more are under-insured making
healthcare the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in America.

That's why all of our candidates -- for President, for Senate, and for the
House -- must do better than fight to protect the status quo.

They must present a vision for America that builds on the successes and
lives saved by Obamacare with a system that finally provides healthcare
for every single person in America.

Medicare for All means no one in America will die or go bankrupt because
they can’t afford the care they need. Call on every candidate for office
to commit to passing Medicare for All now.

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Don't get me wrong. The pressure is working. We're winning this fight.

That's why the insurance industry and Wall Street are fighting back,
spreading lies and misinformation, and contributing to the candidates
willing to sell us out with talking point scare tactics rather than fight
for what the American people need.

But as the report in the New York Times exposed, this isn't the time to
give up or defend the status quo. Americans nationwide are being left
behind by a system designed to rip them off and candidates running for
office too afraid to fight for what’s right.

We know the best defense is a powerful offense. And when most Americans
are hurting, there’s nothing more powerful than a vision for healthcare in
America that leaves no one behind no matter who you are, where you live,
or how much money you have.

[ [link removed] ]Thank you for demanding all candidates join the fight for Medicare for
All, so no one in America dies or goes bankrupt because they can't afford
healthcare.

-Charles

Charles Chamberlain, Chair
Democracy for America




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