COVID teaches us why Medicare for All should be the floor of our demands, not the ceiling,my friends

[basquebromance]

we need to radically rebuild our entire public health infrastructure, my friends!

COVID-19 has revealed the long-standing fragmentation of our public health infrastructure. It has also confirmed how much of it, beyond direct clinical care, is controlled by the private sector (no coincidence Trump had corporate executives at the helm of this week’s Coronavirus Task Force press conference). Calls to reform and rebuild our public health infrastructure and liberate it from the shackles of capitalism need to be as resounding now as calls for Medicare for All.

Ethics Resources on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) - The Hastings Center

 

[basquebromance]

To say emphatically, as Bernie Sanders does, that a public, universal health insurance would enable the American population to be cared for more efficiently and more cheaply than the present private and extremely unequal system is not an “extremist” statement.

but we need to go even further, my friends