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Mar 27, 2022 16 tweets 10 min read Read on X
The House Oversight Committee will be holding a #MedicareForAll hearing on Tuesday — the first since the pandemic began and exposed just how much harm our for-profit healthcare system has done to families and our economy.

🧵Here are 🔟 things you may not know about #M4A ⬇️
1⃣ Health insurance ≠ healthcare.

#MedicareForAll would guarantee high-quality healthcare to every single person in America. "Healthcare is a human right," means there are no physical, bureaucratic or financial barriers to care — which is what #M4A delivers. ⬇️
2⃣ #MedicareForAll removes the red tape and financial barriers to care. When you're sick, you can just see your doctor. There would be no more worrying about which doctors are in your insurance company's network, if you've hit your deductible or if your visit will be covered. ⬇️
3⃣ #MedicareForAll covers vision, dental, hearing, mental health, reproductive care, substance treatment, long term care and more. #M4A is about keeping your entire self healthy.⬇️
4⃣ #MedicareForAll would save families a lot of money by eliminating unnecessary and expensive premiums, co-pays and deductibles. Instead of the government giving subsidies to insurance companies, they would give it to your doctors to cover the cost of your care. ⬇️
5⃣ No one should be left to die or go into debt because they can't afford their medication— this should be something we can all agree on.

#MedicareForAll caps a person's yearly prescription costs at $200 per year. ⬇️
6⃣ Right now the U.S. ranks dead last in healthcare outcomes because of the financial and bureaucratic barriers to care.

By eliminating those barriers with #MedicareForAll, roughly 68,000 American lives would be saved each year. ⬇️
7⃣ Small businesses pay, on average, $6,485 per individual and $13,737 per family, per employee each year.

#MedicareForAll would remove the financial burden from employers allowing them to focus on growing their businesses and giving them the ability to raise wages.⬇️
8⃣ #MedicareForAll is a job creator. #M4A would create an estimated 2.3 million new healthcare jobs, and up to 17 million new jobs when you factor in new long-term care employment opportunities. ⬇️
9⃣ Doctors would save time and money with #MedicareForAll.

Small practices would save $83,000 a year and 9 hours a week by eliminating the administrative time associated with health insurance companies. This would allow them to see more patients and expand their practices. ⬇️
🔟 Congress has a mandate to be fiscally responsible.

By funding healthcare and not subsidizing the unnecessary middleman of health insurance companies, #MedicareForAll would save an estimated $458 billion per year and cost $600 billion less than a Public Option. ⬇️
In 2021, the top 5 health insurance received $35 billion from the U.S. government and reported $39.6 billion in profit.

We should be helping people by funding healthcare, not helping CEOs increase their wealth by funding health insurance company profits.⬇️
Over the last 20 years, the insurance, health and pharmaceutical industry spent over $10 billion in lobbying to protect their profits by keeping healthcare inaccessible, expensive and designed to maximize profits instead of health outcomes.

The corruption is killing us.⬇️
Unfortunately, because taking money from lobbyists is bipartisan, so is opposing #MedicareForAll and other solutions that would lower healthcare costs.

We must end the lobbyist control over Congress by making sure we're electing people committed to refusing their money.⬇️
Universal healthcare with #MedicareForAll is not only morally and fiscally responsible, but overwhelmingly supported across the aisle by voters with 69% support.

Only Congress and the lobbyists cutting them checks are holding us back from the solutions we need.
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As an allied health professional, I've see our broken healthcare system from the inside— and how it harms our families physically and financially.

I'm fighting to protect our families with #MedicareForAll

Please chip in today to support my campaign.
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SCOTUS is gutting Democracy.
🧵Here's how we fight back:

There are 213 Democrats in the House, but not every one is an ally.

Only 61 are sponsors of the Judiciary Act to unrig and expand the Court.

If your Rep isn't a sponsor, tag them, call them at (202) 224-3121 and ask why. Image
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Only 61 are sponsors of the Judiciary Act to expand the Court.

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There are 213 Democrats in the House, but not every one is an ally in the fight to unrig the Supreme Court.

Only 61 are sponsors of the Judiciary Act to expand the Court.

If your Rep isn't a sponsor, tag them, call them at (202) 224-3121 and ask why and get them to support it. Image
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I asked AI to explain Trump's immunity case in the style of Schoolhouse Rock 🧵👇 Image
🎼🎶(Verse 1)
Well, gather 'round, children, let me tell you 'bout a case,
Involving Donald Trump and his time in the highest place.
The Supreme Court had to decide on immunity,
And it's a story that's now part of our legal community.
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🎼🎶(Chorus)
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🧵Here's a quick recap of some of the lies and potential crimes uncovered over the last year: Image
George Santos:
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• Lied about being Jewish
• Lied about his grandparents surviving the Holocaust
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George Santos:
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Oct 23, 2023
There are 9 Republican men vying to be Speaker.

Tonight's GOP Speaker candidate forum is brought to you by some of the worst special interest groups.

🧵Let's meet the candidates and their sponsors: Image
Rep. Tom Emmer's Speaker candidacy is brought to you by the finance and the insurance industry, who has given him $263,000 so far this year to use his position on the Financial Services committee to protect Wall St, promote deregulation, and increase the wealth of billionaires.⬇️ Image
Rep. Kevin Hern sits on Ways and Means which write our tax laws. He's received $113,500 so far this year from the finance, insurance and real estate industries to ensure their taxes stay low, Medicare and Social Security get cut, and billionaires get more tax breaks.⬇️ Image
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Last election cycle, the gun industry donated $4,624,340 to Republicans in Congress. This doesn't include dark money, independent expenditures to boost their campaigns, just straight up donations. (per OpenSecrets)

🧵Here are the top 10:
1. Rand Paul (R-KY) accepted $196,913 from the gun industry in 2022.

Rand Paul is paid to promote gun culture among kids. Image
2. Ron Johnson (R-WI) accepted $183,857 from the gun industry in 2022.

When asked last year about waiting periods for gun sales to buyers under 21 he responded, “Before we pass anything new, let’s enforce the laws we already have. Let’s start with Hunter Biden.” 🙄
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Apr 21, 2022
🏳️‍⚧️Trans Rights are Human Rights.🏳️‍⚧️

We must pass federal legislation to ensure those words have meaning. 🧵⬇️
Trans communities, especially trans youth, are under attack by Republicans seeking to strip them of their rights, identities and the essential services and protections that keep them safe.

We must respond forcefully and with solutions that ensure their equality and protection.⬇️
Federal laws supersede state laws, which means Congress can directly undo the damage being done by homophobic and transphobic Republican state legislatures.

In response to these increasing attacks, I'm proud to release my Transgender Rights Agenda ⬇️
darrigo2022.com/transrights
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