'Everyone living in America should get the healthcare they need, regardless of their employment status or ability to pay.'
Medicare for All activist Ady Barkan, left paralyzed and unable to speak by ALS, delivered a powerful indictment of the 'fundamentally broken' for-profit U.S. healthcare system in his remarks at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, decrying a status quo that saddles Americans with massive costs while providing inadequate treatment. 'We live in the richest country in history, and yet we do not guarantee this most basic human right.
'And even good insurance does not cover essential needs like long-term care. Our loved ones are dying in unsafe nursing homes, our nurses are overwhelmed and unprotected, and our essential workers are treated as dispensable.' 'We live in the richest country in history, and yet we do not guarantee this most basic human right,' Barkan continued.
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