Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Eli Lily caps insulin at $35 a month!
This is pretty amazing. Kudos to Bernie and everyone else who worked so hard to make it happen.
Thinking today of those who already died because they couldn't get enough insulin. There are 68,000 people who die each year from lack of healthcare in the US. 18 million people cannot afford to fill the prescriptions ordered by their doctors.
Insulin capped at $35 is huge and important, but it's just the beginning. The goal is universal healthcare in America, just as there is in every other advanced democracy.
In 2019, I traveled by bus up to Canada with a group of diabetics to purchase insulin for a fraction of what they were paying here in the United States. Today, Eli Lily has significantly lowered its insulin price to $35 a month. Grassroots pressure works. Let's keep going.
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Nothing makes me happier than to see a judge bust a union buster.
🚨🚨🚨 IN A HISTORIC DECISION Administrative Law Judge Michael A. Rosas of the National Labor Relations Board issued his 204 page decision, finding Starbucks violated federal labor law HUNDREDS of times in Buffalo, NY alone. washingtonpost.com/business/…
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In order to win in 2024, the Democratic Party needs to do more than give people hope that they can survive an unjust system.
We need to give people hope that we'll end an unjust system.
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My God.
“I’d like to go to school, but then how would I pay rent?” – a 13 year old who works 12-hour days, six days a week, on a commercial egg farm in Michigan. nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/un…
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18 million Americans have gone without filling a prescription from their doctor because they could not afford the cost, but health insurance and pharmaceutical companies are raking in billions.
BREAKING: In 2022, when 100 million Americans, most of them with health insurance, were saddled with medical debt, the profits from the "Big 7" for-profit insurers soared to $69.3 billion.
So, how did they do it?
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So apparently only those who've had careers entrenched in the machine that drove us into the ditch should possibly be considered "qualified" to lead us out of it.
(They're done such a bang up job and all.)
Squirm, darlings. We see you.
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The American people have been trained to expect too little.
Not receiving universal health care, we're told "it's complicated."
But no, it's not complicated.
It's corrupt.
The American people have been played and we’re waking up.
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We need to do more than treat sickness; we need to cultivate health.
U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick cbsnews.com/news/us-food-add…
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If you’re in or around DC on Saturday, come join us! Otherwise watch the live-streaming. 2pm et 3/4
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See how this works?
2024 National Democratic Primary:
Harris 27%
Buttigieg 14%
Warren 8%
Ocasio-Cortez 6%
Newsom 6%
Klobuchar 5%
Booker 5%
Abrams 3%
Whitmer 3%
Warnock 2%
Beshear 1%
Cooper 1%
Raimondo 1%
Pritzker 1%
Landrieu 0%
Murphy 0%
Adams 0%
Polis 0%
.@EchelonInsights, 499 LV, 2/21-23
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