Medicare for All
Our healthcare system is broken. It has become blatantly clear that companies are making billions denying our families access to medical care. It is not a system designed to provide effective treatment to our families, but to make huge profits for the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies, and countless other industries. Our broken system requires you to pay exorbitant fees to access doctors, tests, and treatment, and then pay even more when you use any of these services. All of which can be arbitrarily denied to you.
With dramatic Republican cuts to medicare, medicaid, and the ACA, over 100,000 Nevadans are at risk of losing healthcare. Around 4 in 10 American Adults report having debt due to medical or dental bills. We are in a crisis, and Medicare for All is the solution.
CURB COSTS
We pay 100% or more in costs because of insurance companies, billing costs, hospital administration, and drug companies.
A single payer system would eliminate the profit-seeking middle-man, and give the American people vastly more power to negotiate for the fair prices that multiple other countries already enjoy.
A single payer system would also eliminate the burden and cost for thousands of US companies saddled with providing healthcare for their employees.
SAVING LIVES
Our life expectancy is significantly lower than many other countries around the world, countries like Portugal, who spend a fraction of what we spend on healthcare per person.
Nearly 40% of Americans skipped or delayed medical care in the last year due to cost. While around 50% says it is difficult to afford healthcare. Around 60,000 Americans die each year because they can not access medical care in a timely manner.
Meanwhile, 500,000 bankruptcies each year are reported with having medical debt as a contributing factor. Hospital visits, ambulance rides, doctor’s offices, specialists, women’s health, dental, vision, mental health, prescription drugs, and treatment would all be covered under the expanded Medicare for All. Our first priority when a family member is sick or injured, would be to get them help, not worrying about how much it will cost.
HEALTHCARE NOT TIED TO YOUR JOB
Decoupling healthcare from your job will allow everyone to receive quality care that is affordable, and employers will no longer be burdened by cumbersome insurance plans and payments.
With unemployment in Nevada at 5% and 1.2 million jobs cut across the US just this year; we need to ensure that working families are taken care of.
