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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 05:16 PM Jun 2015

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 doesn’t 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.”

Read more: http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/health-care-reform/62333-senator-bernie-sanders-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-upholding-health-care-law.html



Sen.Sanders :'Common-Sense' Health Care Decision

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Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on Supreme Court Decision Upholding Health Care Law (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2015 OP
Great. Now we need to talk about another health care issue. onehandle Jun 2015 #1
Bit of a Le Taz Hot Jun 2015 #9
Now thats what I call hitting it out of the park. nt Snotcicles Jun 2015 #2
I have a healthy future erlewyne Jun 2015 #11
We need Medicare Part-E for everybody. nt Snotcicles Jun 2015 #12
"...the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all Americans..." < jtuck004 Jun 2015 #3
"A Medicare-for-all, single-payer system would provide better care..." PSPS Jun 2015 #4
Bernie NAILED it, as usual. n/t Triana Jun 2015 #5
K&R abelenkpe Jun 2015 #6
K & R Thespian2 Jun 2015 #7
Perfect. lovemydog Jun 2015 #8
go bernie! heaven05 Jun 2015 #10

erlewyne

(1,115 posts)
11. I have a healthy future
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 07:33 PM
Jun 2015

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.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
3. "...the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all Americans..." <
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 05:28 PM
Jun 2015

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)
4. "A Medicare-for-all, single-payer system would provide better care..."
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 05:29 PM
Jun 2015

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.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
8. Perfect.
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 07:21 PM
Jun 2015

Huge victory today for the American people.

And yes, we need to keep up the good struggle toward Medicare-for-all!!!

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