Thread by @GunnelsWarren

Why is the healthcare lobby against #MedicareForAll? Follow the money. Their top 65 CEOs made $1.7B in 2017 including:

- $83.2M to UnitedHealth's CEO
- $58.7M to Aetna's CEO
- $43.9M to Cigna's CEO.
They'll stop at nothing to keep their gravy train. 1/14 nyti.ms/2NoseTj

While the big drug & insurance companies have the money, we have the people. 70% of Americans want to guarantee health care to everyone through #MedicareForAll, while Americans dislike healthcare companies even more than Wall Street. 2/14 nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Healthcare lobbyists are trying to use the same scare tactics against #MedicareForAll today that Reagan used in the 1960’s to try to defeat Medicare. They were wrong then and they are wrong today. 3/14 thinkprogress.org/flashback-repu…

In the 1960s, we guaranteed Medicare to everyone 65 and older as a right & rejected a compromise plan from the GOP that would have given seniors “the choice” between Medicare or private insurance. That turned out to be great news for seniors, bad news for lobbyists. 4/14

In recent years, all of us united in rejecting Paul Ryan’s disastrous plan to end guaranteed Medicare benefits by giving seniors vouchers and the “option” to “choose” to buy private, for-profit health insurance or Medicare. 5/14 time.com/4653571/aarp-p…

If we could guarantee healthcare as a right to people over 65 against stiff opposition, we can damn well stand up to the big drug and insurance industry & guarantee health care as a right to all, not some, regardless of age or income. #MedicareForAll 6/14 jacobinmag.com/2017/07/trumpc…

#MedicareForAll improves care by covering dental, vision and hearing, while eliminating deductibles and co-payments. In other words, it recognizes that we all have eyes, ears and teeth that need care. A Medicare-buy-in does not. 7/14 heraldsun.com/opinion/articl…

Under #MedicareForAll, Americans would pay no more than $200 a year for prescription drugs. A Medicare “buy-in” does not provide any cap on prescription drug costs and would let the big drug companies continue to charge us, by far, the highest prices in the world. 8/14

#MedicareForAll will allow everyone in America to go to any doctor or any hospital they want without worrying if it is in network or out of network. Under a Medicare buy-in, tens of millions of Americans will be stuck going to medical providers that are in-network. 9/14

A RAND study found moving to #MedicareForAll in NY would save middle class families $3,000 a year, on average. A more conservative study suggests that the average American could save about $6,000 under Medicare for all over a 10-year period. 10/14

#MedicareForAll, single-payer saves Americans $2 trillion-$5 trillion over 10-years according to the 2 most recent studies. A Medicare “buy-in” wouldn't because it would still allow big drug & health insurance companies to make insane profits. 11/14 truthout.org/articles/new-s…

Opponents must explain how they’d pay the $50T 10/year cost of maintaining our for-profit health insurance system that keeps us spending 2X as much per person as any major country & leaves tens of millions un/under-insured with far worse outcomes. 12/14 washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

Bottom-line: The big drug & insurance companies strongly oppose M4A and a buy-in. Why not go all out and support the only plan that guarantees health care as a right, covers everyone, is free at the point of delivery, and saves money?There's only 1 choice: #MedicareForAll. 13/14

Here are the options to pay for #MedicareForAll. They were calculated before the Trump tax plan was signed into law. New revenue estimates will gain more revenue while saving working class families and small businesses thousands of dollars a year. 14/14 sanders.senate.gov/download/optio…