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Coronavirus shows the importance of Bernie Sanders & Medicare for All.
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In a pandemic, you don’t want people avoiding getting tested or treated because they can’t afford a $3,000 medical bill. A lot of working families cannot afford that.
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We’re only as safe as the least insured person among us. Everyone has to be covered.
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One American man who flew back from Wuhan with his small daughter was hospitalized at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego for several days until the daughter tested negative for coronavirus. After living in Wuhan for 15 years, he did not have American insurance.
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Our CDC had no test kits available so it took many days for results to be flown to CDC and returned. England has now tested 10,000 people on national health insurance. We have tested 420 but many people were untested as kits were not available and they are in our communities spreading the highly contagious virus.
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What is the cost of high-level bio-containment units that function like ICU’s? My guess is that 6 days would easily be $60,000 if not far more.
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This poor man.
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