If you have a beating heart, you deserve to be able to see a doctor. When you see that doctor, you shouldn’t have to worry about having enough money to pay co-pays and deductibles. 

The United States is the only major, industrialized country in the world that does not guarantee healthcare for its people. This has been an international scandal for many years, because the United States also spends significantly more per capita on healthcare than other wealthy nations  while achieving worse health outcomes. While the Affordable Healthcare Act brought greater access to health insurance, it has failed to control healthcare costs. This is because profit not need is prioritized in our current patchwork system dominated by private insurance. To make matters worse, the Democratic Party has repeatedly capitulated to the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, at the expense of the health and well being of the American people.

We should have a right to healthcare. What better way to fulfill that obligation than by expanding Medicare, an enormously popular government program already in place, to cover all people in the United States? Medicare for All would not only cover millions of uninsured people but also provide peace of mind to those with employer-provided plans who are afraid of losing their jobs because it would mean losing their insurance. Moreover, Medicare for All would also bring down healthcare costs by eliminating administrative waste and leveraging the enormous power of the federal government to control drug and provider prices. No more premiums. No more deductibles. No more co-pays. No more denials of care. Healthcare for all.