Join us LIVE in Minneapolis for a Medicare for All Town Hall with @wendellpotter, @keithellison, & @KerriHarrisDE!
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@keithellison: "How are we gonna make sure that everybody can get the health care that they need? How are we gonna abolish parents and kids from being told 'we can't cover that?'"Prikaži ovu nit -
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@keithellison: "In the next few months you're going to see a vociferous, vehement defense of the status quo."Prikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter: "The employer-based system has been crumbling for several years ... Increasingly employers can't afford it, and they're waking up to see the insurance companies have sold them a bill of goods."Prikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter, quoting@WarrenBuffett: "Our health care system is the tapeworm that is destroying American competitiveness."Prikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter: "So much of what we devote to health care in this country goes to enriching shareholders."#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@keithellison: "The system as designed is working. This is very important to understand. [Insurance companies] understand that their profits are based in the complexity."Prikaži ovu nit -
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@keithellison: "If we pay so much we should have the best right? We certainly do not!"Prikaži ovu nit -
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@keithellison: "There is nothing remotely close to the law of supply & demand when it comes to health care. This idea that we can't interfere to control prices b/c of the market is on its face an absurd concept."#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@keithellison: "My thought is if industry doesn't want to get sued, then straighten up and stop taking advantage of people."#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@roachrose: "What are some of the scare tactics that the industry is using to scare people?"Prikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter: "I often call the [industry] talking points and tactics evergreen, because they trot them out every time the industry is under threat. They will call this socialized medicine, you can count on that."#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter: "Just know that when they use terms like that, it's very Orwellian."#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter: "What you are seeing now, and what you will see in the remainder of the primaries, is the mother of all propaganda campaigns."#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@keithellison: "Think about all the things we do together that we love. You've got a 'socialized' fire department, 'socialized' roads, 'socialized' libraries ... it's really a scare tactic."#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@RoachRose: "How can a nationalized health system be used to deal with racial health disparities and racism itself?"Prikaži ovu nit -
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@keithellison: Racism is not only harming black and brown people's health outcomes, but those of white people too.Prikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter: "@KerriHarrisDE is making sure that we're making the case to people of color in South Carolina of why#M4A is a much better system."Prikaži ovu nit -
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@RoachRose: "What are insurance companies spending all this money on -- is it going to delivery?"#M4APrikaži ovu nit -
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@wendellpotter: "A lot of it goes to executive salaries in the C suite, and a lot of it goes into sales and marketing ... at Cigna there's something called the Gold Circle," an annual resort trip/reward for top sales executives.#M4APrikaži ovu nit
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