Fighting for healthcare as a human right in the US. Working group of @MidTNDSA
Nashville/Middle TN
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Why would you want to support “private healthcare options?” No one likes their insurance in the US. Remember when you supported #MedicareForAll ?
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Almost $1,400 since we launched on Friday! It’s phenomenal! Can you help keep this streak going? Every dollar will erase $100 of medical debt for Tennesseeans!! We’re on our way to that $10,000 mark already!!
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Love to see it, @AftynBehn
Rep. Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) and abortion fund member and attorney Rachel Welty on Monday brought a lawsuit against the district attorneys general for Middle Tennessee districts, alleging that a law passed this year infringes upon First Amendment rights. nashvillepost.com/politics/s…
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HELP RAISE $10,000 to ABOLISH $1,000,000 of MEDICAL DEBT IN TENNESSEE! QUILT-TN.COM/DEBT$140 billion of medical debt burden working people in America. Medical debt is the leading cause of debt collections and personal bankruptcy, (1/9)
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The thing about insurance is that, yeah, it costs a lot of money, but at the end of the day, when you really need it, it also won’t help you.
A sad reminder that health insurance exists for some people to profit, not to keep us healthy. See this 🧵 for something you can do. #MedicareForAll
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💥 New report from PNHP tallies how much health insurance corporations overcharge taxpayers to administer the so-called “Medicare Advantage” program.
We are being fleeced to the tune of up to $140 billion.
Every. Single. Year.
Full report here: pnhp.org/system/assets/uploa…
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I can’t with this today
Ady Barkan devoted every ounce of strength to building a brighter, fairer future, one he knew he’d never get to see.
It was my privilege to be with Ady, his family, friends & caregivers at the FDR Awards in September. He urged us to Be A Hero – I again told him that he was mine.
ALT Ady surrounded by his family, friends & caregivers at the FDR Awards in September.
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Please call @SenSanders and tell him to use his role as Chair of the senate Health committee to fight COVID Denial and to not let the public health emergency expire.
Staffers are happy to talk to us (be polite to staffers).
His office number is 202-224-5141
Medicare for All Middle TN retweeted
Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
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In our book Health Communism we talk at length about what we call the “worker/surplus” binary and it’s hard to think of a better example of it than this proposal by House Republicans to disallow receiving unemployment insurance and disability benefits at the same time
ALT “Prohibit Double Dipping In 2010, 117,000 individuals received more than $850 million in payments from both the DI program and UI benefits.300 The SSA estimated that for each month in 2015, an average of about 30,000 of disabled-worker beneficiaries will be in concurrent receipt of DI and UI benefits.301 These two programs are meant to serve mutually exclusive populations: DI is for individuals who are unable to work and UI is for individuals who can work but are temporarily unemployed. The RSC Budget would not allow people to draw benefits from both programs at the same time. This reform has been proposed by Rep. Jodey Arrington’s (R-TX) bill, the Double Dip Elimination Act, which would save taxpayers $2.5 billion over ten years.”
Our system incentivizes further financialization and profit seeking behavior. Our well-being shouldn’t be someone else’s to exploit for profit. #MedicareForAllNow
Private equity groups are scooping up eye care physician practices nationwide as money-making opportunities grow as the U.S. population ages.
And as billions pour into the space, costs are going up.
My latest for @KHNews @FortuneMagazine
fortune.com/2022/09/19/priva…
Public health should never be a new profit-making opportunity, but especially not in a pandemic. We need #MedicareForAll because our health shouldn’t be for sale.
Here is video of @AshishKJha46 saying “we need to get out of that business” of buying tests, vaccines and treatments (a lie) and his “hope” to see “the commercialization of almost all of these products.” Seeing his words is even more ghoulish than reading them.
Far more of us are one bad diagnosis away from the financial edge than some realize. #MedicareForAll is the fix we need.
Medicare for All Middle TN retweeted
Tennessee surpassed 27,000 COVID-19 deaths today, per the latest CDC data. That is the equivalent of the entire population of White County.
When healthcare exists for profit instead of helping people, you can see the difference. #MedicareForAll
Remember that brief period where we recognized communicable illness was a threat to all of us. What if we did it again? #MedicareForAll
Insurance balances potentially life-saving care against their ability to make profit. For-profit insurance is always a for-profit venture. Our health shouldn’t be endangered for profits. #MedicareForAll
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