Those profiting off our disastrous health care system keep pushing patchwork bills and incremental change. But we don’t need more Band-Aids. We want real reform. We want Medicare-for-all.
The grassroots movement for Medicare-for-all has — neighbor by neighbor, conversation by conversation — grown support to more than 70 percent of Americans. That number, combined with new leadership and a new Medicare-for-all caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, means that now is an unprecedented time to win this thing.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, will soon introduce a new Medicare-for-all bill in the House, and we must call our lawmakers to demand they sign on as co-sponsors.
The “Medicare for All Week of Action” Feb. 9-13 is also a great opportunity to attend one of 130 nationwide “barnstorm” events (medicare4all.org/actions), to plan, with our neighbors, the best path forward.
No tweaks to our existing system will make it value people over profits. Let’s stand together to win Medicare-for-all.