Stand with Bernie: We need Health Care!

Pamela, In the past week, Republicans in Congress are panicking about the health care crisis they created. A discharge petition extending ACA subsidies reached 218 signatures in the House of Representatives, over the objections of Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson. But we can't keep extending the broken status quo. Stand with Sen. Bernie Sanders' health care plan! Tell your members of Congress today! TAKE ACTION Bernie says that we must: Extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to prevent 20 million Americans from seeing their premiums double overnight. Repeal the $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the ACA to stop 15 million people from losing coverage. These cuts could lead to 50,000 unnecessary deaths per year — that's unacceptable. Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing. No senior should go without dentures, hearing aids, or glasses because they can't afford them. Cut prescription drug prices by at least 50% by requiring Big Pharma to charge no more in the U.S. than they do in Europe or Canada. This policy has bipartisan support — let's make it law. Expand primary health care by funding Community Health Centers, the National Health Service Corps, and Teaching Health Centers to fix the doctor shortage and make care accessible in every community. Ban stock buybacks and dividends, and restrict CEO compensation in health care. Between 2001–2022, top health care companies made $2.7 trillion in profits — and spent $2.6 trillion on stock buybacks and dividends. CEOs made billions while patients suffered. This greed must end. The bottom line is that America's health care system is broken. It's the most expensive in the world, yet consistently ranks among the worst for outcomes. Millions of people face unaffordable premiums, sky-high drug prices, and impossible choices between rent and insulin. Seniors go without dental care or hearing aids. Parents can't afford childbirth. Workers skip life-saving treatments because they can't pay. This didn't start with the current administration, but unless we act it will become much, much worse. Take action on the health care crisis today! Thank you, Mike Phelan Progress America Paid for by Progress America, a project of Strategy & Hustle   Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Progress America, please click here.