1/ Sanders’ Proposed Medicare For All Would Cover Care Beyond COVID -- per bit.ly/2ADfztw -- Sen. Bernie Sanders is no longer running for president-- but one of his ideas-- Medicare for All-- is more critical than ever--...
2/ ... With more than 33 million Americans losing their jobs during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw -- many are also losing their health care-- That is-- if they were fortunate enough to have it in the first place--...
3/ ...Even with Obamacare - certainly an improvement over free market fundamentalism - tens of millions of Americans are still uninsured-- while most Americans with health insurance are underinsured---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --...
4/ ...The United States-- with the world's largest economy-- needs to civilize itself by extending this right to all-- instead of prioritizing the financial health of Big Pharma and Wall Street-- -- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --...
5/ ...As Martin Luther King Jr-- put it-- "Of all the forms of inequality-- injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane--"----Bernie Sanders popularized Medicare for All-- -- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --a policy he has been advocating for decades--...
6/ ... Sanders' version of universal health care - let's call it Berniecare - includes dental-- mental health treatment-- optometry-- long-term care-- prescriptions and even hearing aids---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --...
7/ ...Berniecare would mean that everyone has health care and no one would incur the medical debt that pushes more than half a million uninsured individuals into bankruptcy each year-- With Medicare for All in place---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --...
8/ ... Americans could have a system that's healthier-- more efficient and above all-- more humane---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --...
9/ ...Replacing the current health care system would also be easier on most people's wallets-- As a Yale University study published in the Lancet in February concluded---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --...
10/ ... Medicare for All would save 68,000 lives and $450 billion annually-- compared to the present mess---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw --...
11/ ...Another recent report-- published in PLOS Medicine-- reviewed 22 studies on Medicare for All---- per bit.ly/2ADfztw -- It found that each of these studies -...
12/ ... regardless of the ideological orientation of its researchers --- per bit.ly/2ADfztw -- had reached the same conclusion: passage of Medicare for All would result in substantial savings in money and in lives
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