rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/expanded-and-improved-medicare-for-all?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-expanded-and-improved-medicare-for-all' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Progressive Democrats of America https://actionnetwork.org/groups/progressive-democrats-of-america https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/419/137/original/IMG_1025.jpeg Join me in telling Congress: The USA desperately needs Medicare for All Our current system costs roughly twice as much per capita as any other industrialized country in the world, yet still leaves tens of millions uninsured and several millions more underinsured. These failures cause 10,000s of preventable deaths every year, as well as economic hardships including medical bankruptcies. Medicare for All would provide all necessary health care for all people residing in the United States, free at the point of service with no financial barriers, while empowering all patients to choose their health care professionals. It would save businesses, taxpayers, and patients, as well as the federal, state, and local governments $billions each year, lowering per capita costs while delivering high quality healthcare for all. There is no moral, economic, or public health rationale for maintaining and subsidizing for-profit insurance companies. They impose burdensome demands on health professionals, forcing them to waste time and money complying with red tape. Medicare for All would free doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and others to provide care by eliminating these unnecessary complications. The COVID-19 pandemic further exposed the deadly flaws in our broken mainly privatized system. We cannot continue to endure unacceptably poor health outcomes including unnecessary costs and delays, as well as rampant waste, fraud, abuse, and—worst of all—denial of life-saving care. These negative effects disproportionately harm the most vulnerable among us including women, rural and urban communities, People of Color, as well as poor and working families. Tragically, we’ve been regressing on health care. With Republicans intent on gutting public health programs and people currently losing Medicaid protections. Profiteering is causing hospital closures and loss of medical care providers in entire regions, creating “health care deserts.” These trends imperil tens of millions of people. We need our elected officials to show their strong support for Medicare for All now more than ever. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/expanded-and-improved-medicare-for-all