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TexasTowelie

(117,236 posts)
Fri May 3, 2019, 06:12 PM May 2019

In D.C., Mainers lead protest demanding Collins support Medicare for All

More than a dozen Maine community leaders and health care advocates from across the nation filled Sen. Susan Collins office in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to demand she support Medicare for All, a proposal to achieve universal health care.

In a letter delivered to the senator’s office following the first-ever U.S. House hearing on Medicare for All, the advocates described the United States’ current healthcare system as “indefensible” and designed to profit off of ordinary people’s pain.

“We are tired of being told that healthcare is complicated when the real problem, the root problem, is that when some of us get sick, someone else gets rich,” the letter reads. “The simple, uncomplicated notion that everyone should have the care they need is a shared belief for all of us gathered today, and among millions of voters across the country.”

The letter asks Collins to commit to turning down all campaign donation from health insurers and to attending a town hall in Augusta during the August recess to discuss Medicare for All.

Read more: https://mainebeacon.com/in-d-c-mainers-lead-protest-demanding-collins-support-medicare-for-all/

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In D.C., Mainers lead protest demanding Collins support Medicare for All (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
Silly Mainers. Sue works for the donors, not you. JDC May 2019 #1

JDC

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1. Silly Mainers. Sue works for the donors, not you.
Fri May 3, 2019, 06:21 PM
May 2019

I'd guess she has concerns, about something, but that is about it.

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