[Peace-discuss] Jimmy Dore on Medicare for All: "House Progressives can FORCE a Medicare for All Vote Now -- Here's How!"

[J.B. Nicholson]

You wrote:
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=iIqw-mTX6ro -- "House Progressives can FORCE a
> Medicare for All Vote Now -- Here's How!"
> 
> One of the more important Jimmy Dore segments given that we're in the midst of a 
> pandemic, millions are losing their jobs (and thus whatever healthcare came with
> that job, if any), and their ability to pay for privatized healthcare.
> 
> Jimmy Dore strongly encourages us to urge 15 self-styled progressive
> Congresspeople to push for bringing a Medicare for All bill to the floor of the
> House for a vote by telling them that they will not vote for Nancy Pelosi as House
> Speaker unless Pelosi brings a Medicare for All bill to the floor for a vote (such
> as Rep. Pramila Jayapal's (WA-07) Medicare for All bill, H.R. 1384 -- 
> https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1384). Jimmy Dore names
> 15 Congresspeople who (given their rhetoric) should be amenable to such a demand
> of them and then asked:

To go along with this, I recommend also watching 
https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/507334-covid19-america-health-crisis/ which is 
Dr. Margaret Flowers, long-time advocate for single-payer universal healthcare and 
Medicare for All, interviewed by Chris Hedges.

There's a video and transcript there and I'm sure there will be a higher resolution 
copy of this on YouTube soon ("On Contact" usually appears on Sundays on the RT 
America or RT channel).

An earlier Hedges interview with Dr. Flowers is 
https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=uVHa_yS2aGk and is also worth watching. It puts many 
healthcare policies into perspective. Among them: reiterating the truth that liberals 
often don't want to acknowledge -- when Mitt Romney ran against Barack Obama it 
wouldn't have made any difference who won in terms of healthcare because what we got 
from the Obama/Biden administration was essentially what had already been tested 
under Gov. Romney -- the 2006 Heritage Foundation-written healthcare plan Gov. Romney 
put into action in Massachusetts colloquially known as "RomneyCare" is largely the 
same as what became the ACA ("ObamaCare"). This is also a point Jimmy Dore makes from 
time to time and it's a good reminder of how narrow the range of allowable debate is 
in this corporate-owned country.