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Health & Fitness

HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

You know the facts:

  • The United States is practically alone among developed nations in adhering to an immoral (and ineffective) for-profit health insurance regime.
  • 48.6 million Americans — almost one of every six of us — is uninsured.
  • 45,000 Americans a year — 123 a day — die because they don’t have health insurance.
  • The private health insurance industry eats up $350 billion a year in administrative costs, waste and profits.
  • A single-payer, Medicare-for-all system would cut drug prices by 40% or more.
  • Inflated medical bills are the number one cause of personal bankruptcies in the United States.
  • The majority of doctors and the American people support a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system.
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