Jimmy Carter comes out in favor of Medicare for All

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10. We need to un-privatize healthcare. Period.

The private insurance industry failed. Think how many people have died in the last 40 years as the cost of healthcare went up decade after decade. Capitalism failed, as a matter of fact. Wages went down down down while the cost of living just kept going up up up. And here we are. American dream a thing of the past.

And all this business about "the perfect being the enemy of the good." That's a capitalism cop-out. I'm thrilled that 6 million uninsured have obtained insurance and that ins companies can no longer deny people with pre-existing conditions. But when we started all this, 45 million were without insurance. That means 39 million are still under-insured or uninsured. What about them? We need to make it possible for everyone to obtain healthcare. Not ONE person should go without healthcare or should lose their house and home in order to get it.