This system of for-profit healthcare
is brutal and inhuman, and preys on our state’s sickest residents. We must enact
Medicare for All to achieve health coverage that is truly universal for all of New Jersey! Currently, the
Medicare for All Act of 2021 (HR 1976) has
121 cosponsors in the US House of Representatives:
a record for single payer legislation! This includes
4 of 11 of New Jersey’s House Reps (Payne, Watson-Coleman, Pallone, Norcross).
Unfortunately, we aren’t where we need to be regarding health care reform. The comparatively modest prescription drug price negotiation powers and Medicare expansions included in the
Build Back Better Act have stalled along with that legislation.
So, how do we get to Medicare for All? It begins with YOU! We must let our all of our elected officials know how seriously our friends, families, coworkers and communities
need Medicare for All, with so many lives on the line.
We must let them know that they will not be getting our vote, at any level of government, if they can’t endorse and champion this policy. Please sign North New Jersey DSA’s Medicare for All Pledge! Let our politicians know that our communities and workplaces are organizing around healthcare as a human right. That there isn’t a political future that doesn’t include transformative health justice for New Jersey, which only Medicare for All is capable of delivering!!!