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W
ith the introduc-
tion of Sen. Bernie
Sanders' Medicare
for All Act of 2017, S.
1804, no one should
be prouder than the
nurses of National Nurses United who have
devoted years of campaigning to transform-
ing our current heartless system based on
greed and suffering to one premised on
patient need and healing.
Today, the dream of healthcare reformers
for more than a century is moving a huge
step forward to fruition.
With the monstrous grip of the health-
care industry over our political and econom-
ic system, who could have imagined a day
when real systemic reform, through an
improved and expanded Medicare for all,
would suddenly be cosponsored by more
than a third of Senate Democrats, and, for a
similar House bill, John Conyers' H.R. 676,
a majority of House Democrats?
Who could have imagined it? Nurses. The
canaries in the coalmines who every day see
patients floored by medical bills they cannot
pay when they or a family member get sick.
RoseAnn DeMoro
Executive Director, National Nurses United
All In
Nurses have fought for decades to achieve Medicare
for all. With Bernie's new bill, the time is now.
At press conference introducing Sanders'
Medicare for All bill, oncology RN Melissa
Johnson-Camacho testified how such
a system would improve her patients'
lives and reduce suffering.
