Our profit-driven health care system hurts patients.
-1 in 4 Americans skip treatment due to cost
-Half fear bankruptcy from medical emergency
-2 million workers change insurance every month
But at least the top health care CEOs made $1.1 billion last year. #MedicareForAll
Today, for the first time, the U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing on #MedicareForAll.
That is no small thing. It's the result of millions of people demanding we make health care a right.
Insurance and drug companies may have the money. But we will win.
It goes without saying that someone who commits a serious crime must pay their debt to society. But punishment for a crime, or keeping dangerous people behind bars, does not cause people to lose their rights to citizenship. It should not cause them to lose their right to vote. 5/
Our present-day crisis of mass incarceration has become a tool of voter suppression. Today, over 4.5 million Americans — disproportionately people of color — have lost their right to vote because they have served time in jail or prison for a felony conviction. 4/
After the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which extended civil and legal protections to formerly enslaved people, many state governments rushed to create new felonies to put black people in jail and then institute lifetime disenfranchisement. 3/
When we look at the history of why our country has banned incarcerated people from voting, we must understand that the efforts to rob citizens of their voting rights was a legacy of slavery and continuing racist attitudes post-Jim Crow. 2/
If we are serious about calling ourselves a democracy, we must firmly establish that the right to vote is an inalienable and universal principle that applies to all American citizens 18 years and older. Period. 1/
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.@AdyBarkan you are an inspiration to me and all of us in the struggle for Medicare for All. We will not stop until we make health care a right for all.
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"What we have seen over the last many years is one disastrous trade policy after another. ... It has led to a race to the bottom." - @BernieSanders on the importance of creating "new trade policies which protect the interests of American workers." https://cnn.it/2ZLnxsr
Trump promised to reduce the trade deficit, stop outsourcing of American jobs and rip up NAFTA. Instead:
-Our trade deficit in goods up to record-breaking $891 billion
-$50 billion in government contracts given to outsourcers
-185,000 American jobs shipped overseas on his watch
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