Healthcare Groups Try To Buy Off Democrats To Stop Medicare For All

According to a new analysis by Think Progress, healthcare groups are ramping up their spending and giving to Democrats on key Congressional committees in order to prevent Medicare for All from becoming a reality. These groups could instead spend their money on creating better access to healthcare, but instead they are focusing on their own selfish desires while screwing over the working class. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Healthcare groups are kind of freaking out right now. As more and more polls show that a majority of the American Public Republicans and Democrats alike want Medicare for All, they want a single payer healthcare system here in the United States. There are unequivocal about it. You've got more and more politicians in DC proposing legislation to actually implement such a policy, you know, something that would effectively and finally get rid of private health insurance companies who have been gouging us for decades. And obviously healthcare industries not too happy about that. And in addition to their usual millions of dollars going to Republicans each year, they've now started to target key Democrats on certain committees in the House of Representatives hoping that buying off a few kind of centrist corporate as Democrats is going to prevent Medicare for All from actually becoming a reality. Think progress just did a phenomenal right up on this.

Um, follow the link in the description of this video. Go look at the charts that they have of the Democrats and how much money they have taken and what committee they sit on and why it's important. It is amazing. So Kudos to think progress for for doing this because it's great, but here's the thing. You have leading pharmaceutical insurance and hospital interests. They formed the Partnership for America's healthcare future and the purpose of that group seems to only be let's prevent Medicare for All from ever becoming a reality in the United States. And these are all the people who stand to lose the most because they liked the way things are now. They like being able to charge us $1,000 for a pill, 20 styles and dollars for two nights in the hospital. They want to be able to charge us $300 a paycheck for our insurance premiums and then not even cover anything until we've paid an additional $9,000 out of pocket.

Makes them a lot of money when they do stuff like that. But it also screws over Americans who are some of us dying because we can't afford our medications. And that's why this has to change. See these healthcare industries that have formed this new little front group, they understand that the writing is on the wall. They know they cannot hold this off forever. But by paying off a few key Democrats sitting on the ways and means committee energy and Commerce Committee, Budget Committee Rules Committee by targeting certain folks, they can either water down legislation or delay it as long as possible. Uh, last cycle they spent 1.2 million on these Democrats that these key targeted Democrats here. Uh, the most, any one of them received, which was frank Palone took in $56,000. Next up you had a $54,000. So they've given, you know, relatively small amounts, you know, in comparison to how much money we've seen other industries give to people over time.

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