One in four Americans live with medical debt. 18 million Americans cannot afford to fulfill prescriptions given them by their doctors. 68,000 people a year die of lack of healthcare. 500,000 medical bankruptcies a year. But health insurers spent $141 billion on stock buybacks, leeching off people’s despair. This tyranny is going to end soon. #Medicare4All
Wendell Potter @wendellpotter
9 May 2023
(1/6) LATEST: Health insurers spent nearly $141 billion buying back their own shares of stock from 2007-2022 to benefit their top execs and Wall Street investors while premiums and deductibles have skyrocketed for millions of Americans. Here's how we got here:

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The UK is in the news for having people waiting for health services. That doesn’t seem to be going well. Friends say they have to go outside NHS to get care.
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ok 68,000 die without it... how many die with it or are in a state of chronic morbidity because of it? the AMA has done a great job selling the fear of death and their concoctions to stave it off... how many drugs does one have to take to counter this or that side effect?
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Thank you for bringing attention to this important issue. It's unacceptable that so many Americans are struggling with medical debt and lack of access to healthcare. I share your optimism that this tyranny will end soon. Continue to push for #Medicare4All
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What’s tyranny is this Obamacare! My husband and I have to pay $1,800 a month for health insurance through the government healthcare program. Insane!
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Not "health" care. SICK care, and people that take NO responsibility for their own lifestyle CHOICES. Terrible combination. Sickest Nation on the planet. THAT'S the problem. Oh, and pharma owns the world. That too.
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It gets even worse when you consider the number of Americans who, with the threat of medical debt even for diagnosis, simply avoid going to the hospital altogether. Not to mention all this: kff.org/health-costs/issue-b…

Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs | KFF

This data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic...

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Private health care is directly responsible for the deaths of many Americans every single day. This system MUST be torn down and remade!!! #medicare4all #singlepayer
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ABOLISH THE DEPRAVED HEALTHCARE CARTELS Time to go mega-antitrust on their ass and bust them up! Health Insurance companies and the big for-profit hospital complex are literal CORPORATE DEATH PANELS