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I call on all Congressmen and Senators regardless of their position on my plan, to make public exactly how much the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the medical supply and device industry, and other hospital and medical special interest lobbyists have contributed to their campaign donation coffers over their full tenure in the Congress or the Senate. Americans deserve to know what the motives are for such a massive transference of lobbying money from big Corporations and special interests to the legislative branch of Government that was elected by the people and that is supposed to be representing the people.
22,000 Americans (and that figure may be a gross underestimation) dying every single year----year after year---is untenable. It's unacceptable. It's a national disgrace. I don't accept it. You shouldn't accept it. Our Senators and our Congressmen, ALL OF THEM, EVERY SINGLE ON OF THEM, shouldn't accept it.
I'm going to do something about it. We are going to do something about it.
The time has come to do something about it.
I've submitted a bill today outlining my entire proposal.
I encourage all of our Senators and Congressmen to read it. I encourage all Americans to read it and to keep in mind the dire straits you would find yourself and your family in should you lose our job, or lose your spouse, or lose your health, or injure yourself, or have one of your children be stricken with an unexpected illness when you were between jobs and out of work and without insurance.
I encourage all of you to support this plan.
If we can bail out Wall Street Banks and insurance companies, surely we can help out ordinary, middleclass Americans.
If we can bail out Wall Street Banks and Investment Bankers surely we can show some compassion and help for all Americans, especially the sick, the suffering, the injured, those with chronic illnesses, those in horrific physical pain, those in need of ordinary medical treatment for their ordinary healthcare needs.
Surely America can do that.
And if you do decide to call you Congressmen and Senators and tell them to support this plan which I have written for all Americans, please be sure to remind them who is paying for their healthcare insurance. It's YOU. YOU are paying for THEIR healthcare insurance.
The time has come. The time is now. The time is here for all Americans to have the right to high quality healthcare. The time has come for all Americans to have access to the doctor of their choice; to have the right to medically needed surgery and hospital care based upon logic, reason and the safety of the patient-----not the bottom line or the quarterly results of some Corporate insurance giant.
The time has come for all Americans to be able to coverage for all aspects of their health and the health of their spouses and families whether it be for a doctor's visit, hospital, surgical, dental, vision, prescription drugs, mental health coverage, help with rehabilitation for physical therapy, help with rehabilitation for substance addiction, medically necessary home health care, or medically necessary long term care for one's elderly parents where expenses today sends many people into bankruptcy after being financially drained of their entire life savings.
America can do better. We will do better. And I am determined to make it better. It will be better with single payer universal healthcare for all who wish to have it.
We need to get moving on this. Nothing can stand in our way of getting true, single payer universal healthcare for all Americans; all Americans who want it. We can't let anything stand in our way.
