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
(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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ACA was no solution, just rewarded Pharma and insurance greed
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You are never going to convince a struggling family that paying higher taxes so that some porn addicted basement dweller can lob off his essential bits. Until the left can embrace common sense, support for universal healthcare will stall out and wither away.
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Yes, but you need to go away. You will do nothing but help trump get elected.
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What "tyranny" exactly? What's the source? Who fucked up the system? This is the result of Obama-care. I'd bet almost anything that you supported that change at the time.
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What about the escalating violence against the homeless? What would you do to ensure homeless people will get housing instead of rape, assault and murder?
This is an NYPD white shirt screaming “lock her up” in reference to a member of the press. This is what it looks like when police have unlimited funds and zero accountability.
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We need a politics of love Right Now! youtube.com/watch?v=5kqzp4N-…
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"It's called the "American Dream" because you have to be asleep to believe it." ~ G.C. 🍿🎻⌛
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