Healthcare


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We need a society that understands interconnectedness and interdependence, a society that knows we should have health care for everybody who needs it. Everybody who needs it, you should. A society that understands that you should have you shouldn't spend two trillion dollars and in a trillion dollars on me and my clients. When when you've got people who are truly suffering in this society, you know, it just say that Medicaid takes care of the elderly. Ill is a joke. It's a joke. Medicaid, Medicare, Medicaid doesn't do what the elderly need. You know what the problem is with drugs. And that hasn't been solved. Prescription drugs. We have so many needs.

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Why do we have 40 to 43 million people without health care? Why isn't that a woman, 28 years old, 30 years old, with breast cancer, without insurance, who works as a secretary but whose boss doesn't give her a policy, which increasingly is the case for people who work? And it was important enough for Medicaid, not old enough for Medicare, has cancer, needs a mastectomy, and then she's bankrupted for life, or at least for a long time. And if she happens to be a little bit older and have a couple of kids, you know, then what did she do? She's a single spouse. And how does that happen in this country? So you you get aggravated and you say we we must be capable of something more than this.