Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on Supreme Court Decision Upholding Health Care Law
Source: eNews Park Forest / sanders.senate.gov
WASHINGTON --(ENEWSPF)--June 25, 2015. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the case of King v. Burwell to uphold the Affordable Care Act:
The Supreme Court recognized the common-sense reading of the Affordable Care Act that Congress intended to help all eligible Americans obtain health insurance whether they get it through state or national exchanges. Access to affordable health care should not depend on where you live.
At a time when the United States in the only major country on earth that doesnt guarantee health care to all Americans and 35 million of our citizens today still lack insurance it would have been an outrage to throw 6.4 million more people off health insurance.
What the United States should do is join every other major nation and recognize that health care is a right of citizenship. A Medicare-for-all, single-payer system would provide better care at less cost for more Americans.
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Sen.Sanders :'Common-Sense' Health Care Decision
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Gun control.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)one-trick pony, aren't you?
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)erlewyne
(1,115 posts)The young adults of today are flocking toward nursing as a future
staple. Fifty years ago I was looking for a factory job. Back then
I thought health care was free. When I lost my job ten years ago
and did not have medicare I learned the cold hard facts. My insurance
would now cost hourly as much as I made after I paid for it
hourly for it (after years all these years of never needing it).
I wonder, do heath care professionals have insurance?
Oh, I am on medicare now, and social security ... and I paid for it.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)But the Supreme Court says we can guarantee profits for our health care companies, so that's something. Did all we could, we were told.
Think of the alternative.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)Don't forget that this "horrible socialized medicine" that republicans bray on and on about is so bad, we included it in the Iraqi constitution. That's right. Even Iraq has single-payer health care which covers all of its citizens thanks to Article 31 of the Iraqi Constitution, drafted by the Bush administration.
Triana
(22,666 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)Go, Bernie...
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Huge victory today for the American people.
And yes, we need to keep up the good struggle toward Medicare-for-all!!!