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When I
waitressed, I had to pay hundreds of dollars per month for the privilege of
paying thousands in deductibles each year for insurance that didn’t really
cover prescriptions.
It was
cheaper and the best option financially to just go uninsured and pray nothing
happened.
I remember
vividly one day, I decided to walk around and ask everyone I worked with –
waiters, bussers, cooks – what insurance they had. Everyone had the same
answer: none. It made more sense for us to save up the money we’d otherwise pay
on premiums and spend it on actual medicine and care.
That’s one
reason why I support Medicare for All.
To this
day, I work so my campaign staff is better insured than I am. But as an
employer, I hate that their healthcare is tied to employment. When people get
debilitating diagnoses, why does our system force us to stress about care
ending with employment rather than getting better?
If we had a
universal system, the huge sums employers pay for insurance could go into
employees’ pockets in other forms (like raises). The answer can’t continue to
be subsidizing the Affordable Care Act more and more as premiums go up and up.
The answer
is single payer healthcare: Medicare for All.
Having to
choose between bankruptcy or your life is a choice that people shouldn't have
to face. It's possible to treat everybody more affordably with
higher-quality care than they ever could get under our current privatized
for-profit system.
Thanks for
reading and together let’s transform our healthcare system for working
families.
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