<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">MEDICARE FOR ALL LABOR BASED GROUP<div class=""> <div class=""><a href="https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/a-labor-based-movement-for-medicare-for-all" class="">https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/a-labor-based-movement-for-medicare-for-all</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 10px; font-size: 36px; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">A Labor-Based Movement For Medicare for All</h1><span class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; display: inline-block; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Slate W01', sans-serif;">by <a href="https://www.sandersinstitute.com/about/fellow/lighty" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 179, 124); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" class="">Michael Lighty</a></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Slate W01', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; font-family: 'Slate W01', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 30px !important;" class="">Healthcare is the crossroads where the assault on workers meets the juggernaut of “crony capitalism.” That’s the term used by the mainstream neo-classical and Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton to describe the coziness between the healthcare industry and its government “regulators.” In fact, Deaton argues, how healthcare is financed and delivered is a driver of inequality. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; font-family: 'Slate W01', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 30px !important;" class="">Registered Nurses see that inequity everyday in hospitals and clinics, where the standard of care patients receive depends on the quality (and cost) of the health plan they buy. Not only the benefits but access to treatments, prescription drugs, certain facilities, the latest technologies, all depend on what you can pay. And guess who has the money to buy the best: the wealthy. So for the first time, after the Great Recession two unprecedented trends occurred: the 1% increased their share of income spent on healthcare, and the average life expectancy people in the US declined.</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 17.5px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Slate W01', sans-serif;" class=""><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 24px;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: xx-large; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;" class=""> “So for the first time, after the Great Recession two unprecedented trends occurred: the 1% increased their share of income spent on healthcare, and the average life expectancy of people living in the US declined.”… cont. at </span></span></h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 23px;" class=""><a href="https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/a-labor-based-movement-for-medicare-for-all" class="">https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/a-labor-based-movement-for-medicare-for-all</a></span><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 24px;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: xx-large; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;" class=""> </span></span></h3></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>