Thread by @FightForM4A

After months of pressure from the #MedicareForAll movement the House @EnergyCommerce hearing on Universal Health Care is set to begin in 30 mins.

We'll be tweeting along in this thread, otherwise you can watch the proceedings live here:

@EnergyCommerce Last week we talked to @RepAnnaEshoo constituent Luisa, a mother of two who is disabled and relies on Medicare to survive. She supports #MedicareForAll because she knows that nobody should die or forego care because they cannot afford it.

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo "One size fits all"

"Fix what's working, oppose what doesn't"

Looks like @michaelcburgess got his marching orders from @P4AHCF! But the people see through Pharma and the insurance company lies. #MedicareForAll is still overwhelmingly popular

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF "This is a historic hearing. We have never had a #MedicareForAll hearing in this committee." -- @RepDebDingell, on today's hearing in the House Energy & Commerce Committee

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell No, @FrankPallone, a #PublicOption would not get us to universal healthcare. #MedicareForAll would. Read more from the CBO here: cbo.gov/budget-options…

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone Hey, @repgregwalden, don't misrepresent #MedicareForAll's costs. You're adding the total cost of MFA to what we currently spend, not replacing it. Multiple studies from multiple partisan leans show Medicare for All is cheaper than our current system!

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden Universality is not the sole goal of #MedicareForAll: cost containment MUST be a part of any substantial reform. Only MFA can bring down our absurd administrative bloat and waste, and do it while eliminating cost sharing and saving people money. None of these other plans can.

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal: "Over half of the Democratic Caucus has cosponsored H.R. 1384.

This is the 4th historic hearing we've had on #MedicareForAll in the House of Representatives. We would not be here if not for an unprecedented grassroots movement."

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow "Medicare for All supports will score a big win [today] when the House Energy and Commerce Committee -- which has primary jurisdiction over health care -- holds a hearing on the proposal from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)."
thehill.com/policy/healthc…

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow This couple, constituents of @RepAnnaEshoo living in San Jose, were stunned to learn their representative doesn't support #MedicareForAll.

They urge Chairwoman Eshoo to sign on as a cosponsor of H.R. 1384 as a majority of her Democratic colleagues have.

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow Many bills!

But only one bill (H.R. 1384) guarantees comprehensive health care for all with no premiums, copays, or deductibles, paid for by progressive taxation. #MedicareForAll

https://twitter.com/NNUBonnie/status/1202711751109881859

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow In the red scrubs is Jean Ross, an RN of 45 years and President of @NationalNurses. Seated to her left is @djheakin who, get this, runs a right-wing dark money outfit that’s taken over $10,000,000 directly from PhRMA in the last few years.

https://twitter.com/CalNurses/status/1204441028599656448

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow @NationalNurses @djheakin Jean Ross was added as a witness after countless people from across the country called @RepAnnaEshoo to demand an RN be included.

@djheakin was added as a witness after acting as a political mercenary for billion dollar pharmaceutical corporations.

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow @NationalNurses @djheakin "The patchwork health system of public programs and private for-profit insurers that we currently have in the United States is ineffective, inefficient, and unjustifiably unaffordable for our patients and for our country."

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow @NationalNurses @djheakin "The only way that we can guarantee every person living in this country receives the healthcare that they need is by adopting a single payer, #MedicareForAll system, which would excise the complexity and corporate profiteering that pervades our health system today." Jean Ross, RN

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow @NationalNurses @djheakin @People4Bernie @BernieSanders @Public_Citizen @AllMeans_ALL "The primary responsibility of a registered nurse is to protect the health & wellbeing of our patients by providing quality therapeutic nursing care when they need it. Our ability to do our job well is made exceedingly difficult and nearly impossible by our broken system..."

@EnergyCommerce @RepAnnaEshoo @michaelcburgess @P4AHCF @RepDebDingell @FrankPallone @repgregwalden @PramilaJayapal @AdyBarkan @NNUBonnie @AllOnMedicare @dsam4a @PNHP @HCNow @NationalNurses @djheakin @People4Bernie @BernieSanders @Public_Citizen @AllMeans_ALL This attack on #MedicareForAll, that it will cause wait times, is not only not true, but ignores the fact that we have infinite want times now: people just die because they can't afford care.

Here’s just one small donation big pharma (PhRMA) made to American Action Network in 2010. Today the President of AAN’s think tank has been invited to testify before @EnergyCommerce where he’s curiously parroting the industry’s “one-size fits all” language on #MedicareForAll.

Same specific language that was used by industry lobbyists when they ghostwrote op-eds attacking #MedicareForAll under state lawmakers’ names earlier this year. Curious!

washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…

Another one of @RepAnnaEshoo's constituent understands that the coupling of health care and employment is deeply unjust.

Health care and employment must be decoupled!

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress Jean Ross, President of @NationalNurses, responds to @RepEliotEngel that nurses and doctors just want to be able to take care of their patients without interference from insurance companies. #MedicareForAll

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress @NationalNurses @RepEliotEngel @PNHP @DrSriram @DrDooleyMD Congresswoman @DorisMatsui, we need more than incremental half measures. We need #MedicareForAll.

Your constituents are demanding that you cosponsor H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019. They are counting on you to be a leader for Medicare for All.
bit.ly/1384matsui

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress @NationalNurses @RepEliotEngel @PNHP @DrSriram @DrDooleyMD @DorisMatsui @DSASac @sacramentolabor @justicedems @sacdems @WellstoneDems @AmarShergillCA This "rural hospitals will close" attack is a @P4AHCF talking point with no basis in reality. In reality: 1/4 rural hospitals are at risk of closure right now. #MedicareForAll fully funds them and has extra funds available to make sure they have the resources they need.

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress @NationalNurses @RepEliotEngel @PNHP @DrSriram @DrDooleyMD @DorisMatsui @DSASac @sacramentolabor @justicedems @sacdems @WellstoneDems @AmarShergillCA @P4AHCF "Does #MedicareForAll eliminate Medicare?"

A totally serious and well-intentioned Member of Congress 🙄

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress @NationalNurses @RepEliotEngel @PNHP @DrSriram @DrDooleyMD @DorisMatsui @DSASac @sacramentolabor @justicedems @sacdems @WellstoneDems @AmarShergillCA @P4AHCF Jean Ross, RN:

🏥 Medicare for All will reduce health disparities and make sure that underserved communities get the funding they need through global budgeting

🏥 M4A will separate health care from employment and allow unions to fight for bigger raises, etc.

@RepBarragan

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress @NationalNurses @RepEliotEngel @PNHP @DrSriram @DrDooleyMD @DorisMatsui @DSASac @sacramentolabor @justicedems @sacdems @WellstoneDems @AmarShergillCA @P4AHCF @RepBarragan @LaborforSPayer @DSA_Labor @AllMeans_ALL @dsam4a Thank you @RepBarragan and @RepEliotEngel for cosponsoring H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019.

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress @NationalNurses @RepEliotEngel @PNHP @DrSriram @DrDooleyMD @DorisMatsui @DSASac @sacramentolabor @justicedems @sacdems @WellstoneDems @AmarShergillCA @P4AHCF @RepBarragan @LaborforSPayer @DSA_Labor @AllMeans_ALL @dsam4a In response to a question by @RepSarbanes, NNU President Jean Ross talks about the success of Maryland's global budgeting program under a Medicare waiver.

The program saved hundreds of millions of dollars, reduced re-admissions, and improved health outcomes.

@RepAnnaEshoo @Eshoo4Congress @NationalNurses @RepEliotEngel @PNHP @DrSriram @DrDooleyMD @DorisMatsui @DSASac @sacramentolabor @justicedems @sacdems @WellstoneDems @AmarShergillCA @P4AHCF @RepBarragan @LaborforSPayer @DSA_Labor @AllMeans_ALL @dsam4a @RepSarbanes That's a wrap!

Keep urging your Member of Congress to cosponsor H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019.

Call: 202-858-1717

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