We Need Medicare for All Now, but Socialists Must Fight For Much More
There is more reason than ever to replace private insurance with a single-payer, Medicare for All system, and masses of people must rally around the bill to show Congress that we demand health care. However, to fully meet the health care needs of all working and poor people, socialists must go much further and raise the need for every aspect of the medical industry to be taken under public and democratic ownership, removing the corrupting influence of the profit motive from everything from hospitals to pharmaceuticals.