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The bill, sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, would take effect immediately and remain in place until the HSS Secretary certifies to Congress that a FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine is widely available

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The U.S. spends about twice as much per capita for its patchwork health-care system than most industrialized countries. Why were we caught with such shortages of masks, ventilators or hospital beds?

Why do we fail in protecting our own people’s health and well-being while we squander more than a trillion dollars each year – with the assent of both Republicans and Democrats – on maintaining a failed and futile military empire across the world?

We don't have to debate whether Medicare for All is possible. It exists. The Canadian system, also called Medicare, guarantees coverage to every resident north of the U.S. border.

In terms of potential deaths and the impact on our economy, the crisis we face from coronavirus is on the scale of a major war, and we must act accordingly. We must begin thinking on a scale comparable to the threat...

All it took was a pandemic of potentially unprecedented scale and severity and suddenly it’s like we’re turning into Denmark over here.