Common Dreams June 20, 2022
“It’s time to stop treating universal healthcare or single-payer or Medicare for All as some sort of fringe, left-wing issue,” said Mehdi Hasan.
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan used his major-network platform on Sunday to make the case for Medicare for All as a critical public health measure, pointing to a new study showing that a single-payer system designed to guarantee comprehensive coverage to everyone could have prevented more than 338,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States.
“It’s time to stop treating universal healthcare or single-payer or Medicare for All as some sort of fringe, left-wing issue, some political hobbyhorse for Bernie Sanders or ‘The Squad,'” Hasan said during the three-minute segment. “No, it’s a public health issue. It’s a policy...
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