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As you constituent here in Eugene, I thought I'd share this letter with you from the Oregon's Medicare for All and National Nurses United. It is so important that you work to make this a reality here in Oregon and the nation! Now is the Time for Medicare for All If we do not inspire, energize, and organize the largest grassroots movement in history, including the multiracial working class, everyday Americans, and everyone else hurt by our broken health care system, by demanding real material changes like Medicare for All, then we risk losing millions more people to the false promises of authoritarians and their corporate allies. An Open Letter to those seeking to reform our health care system: Dream Bigger, Be Effective: Our Democracy is struggling, and the status quo is not working. Too many corporate-backed politicians continue to push for a “business as usual” approach while wages stagnate, public goods and services erode, and billionaires amass grotesque amounts of wealth. The reality that far too many live today is one of debt and struggle. Working people feel a deep sense of alienation and powerlessness due to the state of our economy, which is rigged to benefit corporations and wealthy elites. How can one feel optimism for our future when over 40% of us are carrying around the burden of medical debt? How can we plan for our futures when we can’t afford to go to the doctor or cover rent? We need an agenda that working-class people and everyday Americans can rally behind. Without one, far-right, fascist politicians are filling that void. This fascist agenda redirects people’s rightful anger at our system’s failures to unjustly place blame on immigrants, low-income people, and people of color. It’s time to acknowledge that failing to provide transformational policies and hope to the working class has allowed fascism to rise and hold on to power. It’s time to challenge the corrupt CEOs who profit off despair. To show people real solutions that can work. No one can fix our rigged economy overnight. Our structural inequality is decades in the making. But one piece of the solution is to take on one of the largest industries in our country: health care. We may face a once-in-a-generation opportunity to legislate on health care in 2029. We need to rally behind the boldest possible reform, Medicare for All, that brings together the broadest possible movement, not overly complex incremental measures that prop up the same systems we’re seeing fail under the weight of attacks by Trump and Republicans. The American people are hungry for bold ideas that reform fundamental institutions that have failed them for too long. And they are looking for leaders who will take on powerful interests and fight for working people. Now is the time to organize and inspire! Support for Medicare for All grows daily in our communities and in Congress. It’s our best path forward, and it’s rooted in real promise: everybody in, nobody out. A small minority of skeptical health care policy wonks may try to convince us to scale back, that structural change isn’t winnable. The reality is that alternative proposals don’t move us towards Medicare for All and complicate our already broken system. Halfway measures allow corporations to continue profiting off the sick. We must dream bigger. In fact, 90% of Democratic voters and 63% of all voters support Medicare for All. Americans believe the government should guarantee health care to everyone, and anything less means tens of millions of people in the U.S. continuing to suffer from the lack of necessary care and the prospect of medical debt if they do seek care. We can’t give in to half measures; we must fight for exactly what people need and deserve. Medicare for All is the only way that we can guarantee everyone’s care and finally take the profit motive and corporate influence out of health care. We are seeing record support for the Medicare for All Act in the Senate, and more than half of the House Democratic caucus members have already signed on. Politicians fighting for Medicare for All are reaping the rewards of being on the right side of history. Billionaires and their cronies have already begun their attacks against Medicare for All, and that speaks to the power of this issue and its ability to rally everyday Americans. Join us in dreaming of an economy that works for all of us. Where workers get paid a living wage and have expanded and enforced rights. A future where people can afford safe, healthy, and affordable housing and utilities. Where schools are robustly funded. A core part of that vision is making health care a human right. We urge members of Congress to stop listening to the political consultants and start listening to the people. Americans understand we must get corporate greed out of our health care system once and for all. Meet the moment: Join the fight for Medicare for All Signed, 4 Positive Choices Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) Action North Carolina Action Together Florida Activate Maine Actors' Equity Association AIDS Healthcare Foundation All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care Alternatives American Federation of Teachers Retirees-Washington American Friends Service Committee American Humanist Association American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Americans for Democratic Action-Southern California Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) Baltimore County Progressive Democrats Club Baltimore Nonviolence Center Beta Cell Action Black Coalition for Safe Motherhood Black Nurses Rock Delaware Chapter Blue Future Bulletproof Pride Butte County Health Care Coalition California Nurses Association California OneCare Education Fund Californians for Disability Rights Inc. 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