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      Sen. Bernie Sanders

      'Now Is the Time to Act': Sanders Pushes Bipartisan Bill to Solve Primary Care Crisis

      "Providing Americans with a medical home will not only save lives and ease suffering," said the senator. "It will save billions of dollars. Providing primary care to all is not only smart healthcare, it is cost-effective healthcare."

      Julia Conley
      Aug 16, 2023

      In an op-ed on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case for the bipartisan legislation he introduced last month to address the nation's shortage of doctors and nurses as well as the "primary care cliff" that he has warned millions of Americans are heading toward if Congress does not act to fund the community health centers that many Americans rely on.

      Writing at The Daily Beast, the Vermont independent senator said the country's for-profit healthcare industry—in addition to leaving more than 27 million Americans without health insurance—has failed to recruit and retain a sufficient number of medical providers, with the American Association of Medical Colleges projecting a shortage of 122,000 doctors by 2032.

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      Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a press conference

      At Medicare for All Town Hall, Sanders Says For-Profit System Is 'Failing' and Must End

      "The American people understand that healthcare is a human right," said the Vermont senator.

      Jake Johnson
      May 17, 2023

      "The current healthcare system in the United States is totally broken, it is totally dysfunctional, and it is extremely cruel."

      That was how Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) kicked off his speech Tuesday night at a town hall in Washington, D.C., convened hours before the planned reintroduction of Medicare for All legislation in the House and Senate on Wednesday.

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      Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) as she introduced Medicare for All legislation in 2019 on Capitol Hill.

      An Open Letter to Congressional Sponsors of Medicare for All

      Please improve the bill now, before it is introduced.

      National Single Payer Steering Committee
      Mar 07, 2023

      Dear Member of Congress:

      As legislation for national single payer health care, an Improved Medicare for All, has not yet been introduced into the current Congress, now is the time to work to make that bill what it must be to solve the nation’s health care crisis.

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