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:

May 9, 2023 · 5:10 PM UTC

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Capitalism kills millions of people every year. Who keeps that count?
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Run for president win then fix this. You have my vote. Keep your promises.
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Dental work is so expensive here.
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Medicare has serious issues of being sold out to private insurers thanks to Biden & other "Dems" before him—if your version of "Medicare 4 All" doesn't fix these issues, it's not worth fighting for, it's just a scam—how about simply "Single-payer universal healthcare"? #SPUH
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We are so grateful @wendellpotter is a part of @HealingUSmovie, which premieres in Tacoma, Wa and online worldwide on May 19th, just two days have re-introduction of #MedicareForAll legislation! You are also seen in the movement piece, speaking at the D.C. M4M4ALL. #HealingUs
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There's a simple 5 point plan to start fixing everything.
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The tyranny is from you trying to be a fascist who dictates how business must be run. There's no right to force people to provide you with service or to force your neighbors to pay your bills. Those are blatant rights violations.
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Predatory pricing of American health care destroys people's lives. These charges are fraudulent, and insurers should be prosecuted for this, yet it does not happen, because it is so pervasive in this culture. This has to change - AGs need to start charging insurers for fraud.
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We need to hold the healthcare industry responsible for pushing harmful and unnecessary surgeries on people who cannot consent, such as routine neonatal circumcision
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