Join us LIVE in Minneapolis for a Medicare for All Town Hall with @wendellpotter, @keithellison, & @KerriHarrisDE!
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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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