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Healthcare
Doctors and Nurses know what's wrong with healthcare: Greed. You shouldn't be forced to pay $100 for a $1 treatment just because some middleman wants a handout. Insurance companies, hospital executives, and a government more focused on hospital profits than patient wellness have led our healthcare system into a deep and terrible sickness.
It's long since time to cut out the rot and give our patients the care they deserve.
For Our Patients
For Our Healthcare Workers
Too many times we have been told that
expanding healthcare to everyone would
be too expensive. And at the same time they
give huge tax cuts to those who already pay
nothing. We're told that wait times would be
too high, and then they cut funding to the VA.
The reasons they give for why we can't do this are nothing more than excuses to keep us from getting what we deserve. And yet we bring in more in taxes than we spend each year, all without large corporations and billionaires giving a single cent in taxes. We could cut taxes and expand healthcare too, and it's time we did.
I know I don't need to tell you this, but when we treat our healthcare workers with hostility,
we can't be shocked when hospitals start shutting down and your workload increases
to unworkable levels. No pay could justify
that. We have some of the best nursing colleges and medical schools in the
country, and yet we can't seem to
hold on to you. You and I both know
it's because you've been left behind.
If our government won't prioritize you,
we'll have to force them to.
Abortion. It's about control.
They say it's about protecting children, but it's about controlling the mother. How can we protect children if we can't protect their mother? Women who can't get abortions die in childbirth, giving birth to a baby that long since died. Let it be made clear: Women do not put in months of pain and effort to carry a baby to term just to get an abortion.
I'll be honest. I don't know how to talk about this issue without bringing up just how much we failed when we failed to protect Roe v. Wade. Women die because we won't let their doctors do what's necessary. If you disagree, I promise you won't when it happens to someone you love. And among those for whom it is a medical necessity, and those for whom it isn't, medical debt waits around the corner.