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Sunday, January 22nd, 2023

Fight Grows to Stop Medical Debt From Destroying Patients’ Lives

Author:     Amy Goodman & Juan González
Source:     truthout / Democracy Now
Publication Date:     January 18, 2023
 Link: Fight Grows to Stop Medical Debt From Destroying Patients’ Lives
Stephan:  

The Republicans, instead of dealing with real problems, are going to give us a House focused on trashing the Bidens, cutting Social Security, and ending Obama healthcare. Real problems are like the medical debt crisis described in this interview with Senator Bernie Sanders. The American illness profit system is crippling the country and must be changed, as Senator Sanders has proposed if the quality of life in this country is not to be further degraded. Can the Republican members of Congress rise to Sander's level of integrity? I doubt it. I don't think they care about the wellbeing of their constituents.

The growing problem of crushing medical debt was raised by Senator Bernie Sanders in a national address Tuesday on the American working class. We hear from patients and discuss the fight to stop hospitals from suing patients, garnishing wages and putting liens on homes of people facing medical bills they can’t afford. We are joined by Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York campaign.

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.

In a major address Tuesday evening from the U.S. Capitol, independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont gave a national address on the state of America’s working class. He focused in part on the growing problem of medical debt.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: I see — I see a nation where over 85 million of our people are either uninsured or underinsured. And as all of you know, we are the only major country on Earth not […]

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