December 11, 2024 by V Leigh

Last year the health insurance industry reported $70.7 billion in profits, while 41% of Americans are stuck with medical debt. Your medical debt is just a health insurance CEO’s profit. Pass Medicare for All.

Last year, the 7 largest private health insurers collected $1.39 trillion in profit.

It is absurd that Big Insurance is raking in trillions while Americans are pinching pennies to afford treatment.

We need Medicare for All now.
— Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) December 9, 2024

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Last year the health insurance industry reported $70.7 billion in profits, while 41% of Americans are stuck with medical debt.

Your medical debt is just a health insurance CEO’s profit.

Pass Medicare for All. pic.twitter.com/CwSZRF1iXU
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) April 9, 2024

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Overhead is 2-3% for Medicaid & Medicare & 20% for-profit health insurance, plus near unlimited on drug costs.

Both provide the exact same doctors & meds. The only reason for profit has massive markup is to pay for CEO bonuses & private jets.

We need universal healthcare now!
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 7, 2024

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For-profit healthcare will always fail us, as it’s not designed to heal us, it’s designed to extract our money.

It’s in the name: for-profit.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 10, 2024

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October 4, 2024 by V Leigh

The only reason Americans can’t have free healthcare is the government doesn’t want black Americans to have it. Medical apartheid in the name of anti-blackness

The only reason Americans can’t have free healthcare is the government doesn’t want black Americans to have it.

Medical apartheid in the name of anti-blackness
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— Derenic Byrd (@DerenicByrd) September 27, 2024

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A new report found that the for-profit US healthcare system ranks last among peer nations.

We spend twice as much per capita on healthcare and have the worst health outcomes.

Reminder that Medicare For All would save $450B in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 20, 2024

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Pregnant Black Mom Loses Baby As Staff Eats Meal & Ignores Her During Cr… https://t.co/3cx2Pa50up via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) September 14, 2024

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Today 33,000 Boeing workers who are out on strike had their health care revoked by the company.

This is one more reason health care shouldn’t be tied to employment.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) October 1, 2024

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May 24, 2024 by V Leigh

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry.https://t.co/vUiM1tjjTr
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 19, 2024

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Don’t tell me we can’t fund healthcare for everyone when we can fund a genocide.

If we’ve got money for bombs, we’ve got money for people.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) May 17, 2024

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3M poisoned you and every other person on earth. The company should be dismantled and every executive involved in the coverup should be subjected to a swim in a PFAS plunge pool.

My fucking god. What is the point of regulations if we cannot hold these people accountable? pic.twitter.com/XJ5ZOvTUZF
— Tom Winter (@WinterForMT) May 21, 2024

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Republicans: Diabetes could be 100% solved with healthier eating (not true btw)

Also Republicans: No healthy food on our watch—your options are to eat processed canned food…or starvation

Here are the GOP’s proposed SNAP (food stamp) restrictions. Cruel & dangerous. pic.twitter.com/gXXw2ue57a
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) January 21, 2023

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Nearly 14,000 Black Americans will move up the kidney transplant list after an unfair test was discovered to misrepresent kidney function among Black patients. Now, the formula for this test is being changed, bringing us closer to #healthequity. https://t.co/QfpcQRpNvX
— Robert F. Smith (@RFS_Vista) May 21, 2024

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Poor levels of preventive care because of racism.
Poor levels of access to medical trials because of racism.
Poor support systems because of racism.
The answer is…racism https://t.co/Pc9wUgRsDm
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) May 9, 2024

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The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago https://t.co/Tf1bjAfgIP
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 21, 2024

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April 9, 2024 by V Leigh

Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in BAND-AIDS where they can get directly into blood through open wounds, report warns https://trib.al/EVGNc6d

Actions speak louder than words. https://t.co/Y2sab6uYpR pic.twitter.com/fqL0EHeof0
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 27, 2024

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Your periodic reminder that Medicare For All would save $450 billion in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 26, 2024

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So long as our healthcare system is for-profit, only those who have the money to afford it will have the privilege of having it.

Single-payer NOW.
Medicare for All NOW. https://t.co/zeXTydLHYJ
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 24, 2024

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I can’t emphasize it enough: Healthcare prices are fake. Never, ever pay the first bill in full. Make a good-faith effort and call the provider to get on the record a request for a reduced bill. This was for an urgent care visit while I was uninsured: from $420 to $102. pic.twitter.com/5QgG7M0sFe
— 🇵🇸 timothy 🍉 faust (@crulge) March 24, 2024

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— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) March 24, 2024

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Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in BAND-AIDS where they can get directly into blood through open wounds, report warns https://t.co/Y3UGyoHDZW pic.twitter.com/Ky6QZVp3Ru
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 3, 2024

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October 16, 2017 by V Leigh

President Trump’s actions yesterday make life-saving #healthcare even less accessible for millions of Americans.

BREAKING: Trump putting the knife in. Ending low income cost sharing CSR payments.

Aims to chase out insurers.https://t.co/16gRz5dvhN

— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) October 13, 2017

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The nonpartisan CBO estimates this will raise premiums by 20%. The President is destroying health care to make a political point. https://t.co/XWJSroY1ye

— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) October 13, 2017

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Today: Trump screws anyone who needs to buy their own insurance in 2018. I'm so angry. https://t.co/MAf0Msy1gR

— Aisling McDonough (@AislingMcDL) October 13, 2017

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If you're concerned about Trump's mental state, you're not the only one. One of America's top psychiatrists believes Trump is mentally ill. pic.twitter.com/ONF1dQupXT

— Mic (@mic) October 12, 2017

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President Trump’s actions yesterday make life-saving #healthcare even less accessible for millions of Americans. https://t.co/rnfZw8bfXT

— SPLC (@splcenter) October 13, 2017

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"Obamacare is finished. It's dead. It's gone" said President Trump after slamming Republicans for not "getting the job done." #healthcare pic.twitter.com/st9IQengWS

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) October 16, 2017

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August 20, 2015 by V Leigh

#Politics #FederalPolicy Tweets 8.20

Sanders: 'I'll fight hardest to end racism' ………………………………………….. http://t.co/VgpEcyH7EN

— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) August 16, 2015

BREAKING: @CornelWest endorses @BernieSanders as best option for #blm http://t.co/dYmgMIdn4n #blacklivesmatter #FeelTheBern

— Auraria4Sanders (@Auraria4Sanders) August 14, 2015

Must read piece on the subversion of federal policy to perpetuate housing segregation: http://t.co/VNITUDVEIn pic.twitter.com/EWedfh2Sfq

— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) August 15, 2015

Stop calling them low-wage workers, let's call them workers in low wage paying jobs. YUP! #apalacon15

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) August 15, 2015

Ohio's governor said he's open to signing a state law requiring cops to wear body cameras. http://t.co/b1PdzRZ53q v @washingtonpost

— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) August 15, 2015

My piece for @CultureStrike's #VisionsfromtheInside project #immigration #not1more #art4 http://t.co/tkCDQW6tke pic.twitter.com/A7XkEfdD5j

— favianna rodriguez (@favianna) August 14, 2015

what doesnt she understand? there is a movement. there are people trying to change laws? https://t.co/OsES5stfNW

— E (@emilybeige) August 20, 2015

Since the Affordable Care Act, the US Uninsured Rate Has Fallen Below 10% For First Time http://t.co/TOFmqi8lPm pic.twitter.com/Ms0qV1O9Ui

— SPLC (@splcenter) August 12, 2015

June 25, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

SPLC files federal lawsuit over inadequate medical, mental health care in Alabama prisons

Alabama has the most overcrowded prisons in the nation and spends one of the lowest amounts, per inmate, on health care. The prison system contracts with Corizon Inc. to provide medical care and MHM Correctional Services to provide mental health care. In 2012, when the ADOC released a “Request for Proposal” for a new health care contract, applicants were scored on a 3,000 point scale. Out of a possible 3,000 points, contract price accounted for a possible 1,350 points. Qualifications and experience counted for only 100 points.

The ADOC renewed its contract with Corizon in 2012, even though Corizon (the company providing health care in Alabama prisons since 2007) failed every major audit of its health care operations in Alabama prisons under its first contract with the state.

Source: www.splcenter.org

June 9, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

Daughter: Vietnam vet waited and waited, only to die before getting VA appointment

Priscella Valdez says her father Pedro, a Vietnam vet, tried for months to get an appointment at the Phoenix VA only to die before he could.

See on www.cnn.com

June 9, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

GOP Straight Up Bribes Democratic Senator In Effort To Block Obamacare

The Republican Party in Virginia has resorted to what appears to be outright bribery in its ongoing effort to deny low-income residents in the state access to the Medicaid expansion authorized by Obamacare.

The Washington Post is reporting that R…
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