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How We Get to Medicare for All

Nancy J. Altman Common Dreams
Health care should be available to everyone in America as a right—automatic and free of charge when we need it. Rich or poor, sick or healthy, old or young, no matter where you live, everyone should have high-quality health care.

Tidbits-Sept. 3: Reader Comments: Oil Imperialism; Trump Lies on Medicare for All; Rev. James Lawson; Dolly Parton; NYC-DSA’s Socialist Sweep Volunteers; the Strait of “Horn-Moos”; What Goes On Inside Israel’s Prison System; Lots of Events;

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Reader Comments: Oil Imperialism; Trump Lies on Medicare for All; Rev. James Lawson; Dolly Parton; DHS Historic Legacy; NYC-DSA’s Socialist Sweep Volunteers; The Strait of "Horn-Moos"; What Goes On Inside Israel’s Prison System; Lots of Events;

“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

Norman Solomon Nation of Change
The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.

El-Sayed’s Win in Michigan Is the Most Consequential Election This Year

Dr. James J. Zogby Arab American Institute
In what will be seen as this year’s most significant election Dr Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and massive US military support to Israel became central themes actively debated across the state

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Medicare for All Is an Electoral Winner

Jared Abbott Jacobin
Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.

Too Big To Heal

Helen Santoro, Joel Warner The Lever
The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.
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