<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bernie Sanders</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@democracyforamerica.com">info@democracyforamerica.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:09 AM<br>Subject: I'm asking for your help today<br>To: Baker Daniel <<a href="mailto:BLACKDANTHEMAN100@gmail.com">BLACKDANTHEMAN100@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<p>Baker --</p>
<p>This is a crucial moment in American history.</p>
<p><b>Do we, as a country, join the rest of the industrialized world to guarantee comprehensive health care to every person as a human right?</b> Or do we maintain a system that is enormously expensive -- and is designed to maximize profits for huge insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and Wall Street?</p>
<p>The good news is that, every day, more and more Americans are waking up and realizing that health care is a right worth fighting for.</p>
<p>The Republican push to take health care away from millions of people, led by Donald Trump, has made one thing very clear: We need a Medicare for All single-payer health care system -- and the fight to make that system a reality will be a defining issue for Democrats and for Republicans in the 2018 campaign cycle, in 2020, and beyond.</p>
<p><b>Democracy for America has always been a pivotal partner of mine in the fight for Medicare for All and a single payer system. That's why I'm asking you to do something important right now in the fight for justice:</b></p>
<p><a href="https://act.democracyforamerica.com/go/25835?refcode=g-berniem4a1227.d-20171227.m-10505.s-38576&akid=10505%2E2888337%2EG3BqT9" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>Please chip in $27 to support DFA's work in 2018 to elect progressive candidates like me who will relentlessly fight for Medicare for All from the campaign trail to Congress. Together, we can make it not just a right -- but a reality.</b></a></p>
<p>Multiple times over the course of this year, Republicans tried to take health care access away from millions of Americans. <b>And every single time, DFA members fought to stop them. </b></p>
<p>Fighting back against Trump's endless attacks on health care is important. But it's not enough. We have got to go forward, not backward. While the Affordable Care Act was a step forward, it is not enough.</p>
<p>Today, more than 28 million Americans have no health care at all and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. We also pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.</p>
<p><b>The status quo is not working. Our health care system is rigged to provide big insurance companies and drug companies with billions of dollars in profits at the expense of everyone else, and that needs to change.</b></p>
<p>That's why I, along with 16 other Democrats, introduced a Medicare for All single-payer bill earlier this year -- and why tens of thousands of DFA members signed on in support of this historic bill.</p>
<p>Now, we're not going to pass my Medicare for All legislation as long as Republicans are in charge. And there are some establishment Democrats who would rather not see it pass, either -- I know that very well.</p>
<p>The only way we are going to make a Medicare for All single-payer system a reality is if we have a revolution in our political system, where millions of Americans stand up to the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry by electing representatives who will fight for the people, not just big corporations and the billionaire class.</p>
<p><b>Democracy for America has a long history of standing with candidates who will fight to make health care a right for everyone.</b> For example, Democracy for America members made 2.5 million calls in 2016 using DFA Dialer to elect candidates like <b>Sen. Kamala Harris</b> and <b>Rep. Pramila Jayapal</b> -- and now they are two of most important leaders we have on Capitol Hill fighting for Medicare for All.</p>
<p>Right now, DFA is laying the groundwork for a huge Medicare for All push in 2018. They're already supporting many of the Senate co-sponsors of my Medicare for All bill, including <b>Sen. Elizabeth Warren</b> and <b>Sen. Tammy Baldwin.</b> And DFA is backing union member <b>Randy Bryce</b>, another big Medicare for All supporter, to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan.</p>
<p><b>DFA has played a critical role in building our political revolution from the beginning. And if we work together, we can make a huge difference in our political system by electing a strong slate of Medicare for All champions in 2018.</b></p>
<p><a href="https://act.democracyforamerica.com/go/25835?refcode=g-berniem4a1227.d-20171227.m-10505.s-38576&akid=10505%2E2888337%2EG3BqT9" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>So I’m asking you -- can you contribute $27 (or whatever you can afford) to support my friends at DFA today? It would mean a great deal to me.</b></a></p>
<p>In solidarity,</p>
<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders</p><img src="https://act.democracyforamerica.com/o.gif?akid=10505.2888337.G3BqT9"></div>
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