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[Peace is Possible]

I love this part!

"We are already paying for a universal system of care, we’re just not getting it. ... Close to $2 trillion a year is spent for healthcare in America, but one out of every four dollars goes for the activities of the for-profit system: corporate profits, executive salaries, advertising, marketing, the cost of paperwork—anywhere from 15 to 30 percent, as compared to Medicare’s 3 percent....

And so what I’ve advocated with John Conyers is HR 676: universal single-payer not-for-profit healthcare, which provides that everyone’s covered for everything. And we’re already paying for a universal standard of care—we’re just not getting it because—if you took that almost $500 billion a year and put it into healthcare in the form of a universal system, we would have enough money for all basic medical care, plus dental care, vision care, mental healthcare, long-term care, prescription drugs and even broader coverage. We’re already paying for this. We’re not getting it. We need to have the end of healthcare for profit in the United States and the beginning of a healthcare system which helps those who don’t work or can’t work, which helps workers, small businesses, manufacturers. This could be—this single move towards healthcare for all can bring about a dramatic shift in the American economy and in the lives of every man, woman and child in the United States.