Medicare for All Proponents Refer to National Movement Building Pressure
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"A growing number of individuals are realising that we do not want private insurance firms to run our healthcare system."
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders reiterated this weekend at The Sanders Institute Gathering in Burlington, Vermont, the sobering facts and figures regarding healthcare, one of his most passionately pursued causes, which were no doubt well-known to many of the progressive champions in attendance.
Americans spend twice as much on healthcare per capita as citizens of other affluent nations, yet their life expectancy is "substantially lower" as a result.
Each year, almost half a million Americans file for bankruptcy as a result of medical debt.
Over one-third of healthcare expenditures are devo...