2/ Employer health insurance costs have soared over the last 20 years with premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses rising faster than wages. 1 in 3 Americans has medical debt, & nearly 60% of those with debt are insured. People delay care, skip meds, & worry every time they use the system.

12/ Our system is broken, but it doesn’t have to be. Bold reforms—cutting prices, breaking up monopolies, and returning care to clinicians & communities—could finally put patients first.
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Love,
YLE & Hayden Rooke-Ley

No rural hospital, no helicopter flights to an ER, no life-saving care available while she was bleeding out during the trip. This was not so long ago and the situation in Texas is much worse since. I haven't checked lately but the TX maggats wouldn't even update the maternal mortality stats. /4

I met a still-young Austin hospitality worker whose children were all adults because she had them at a younger age than what is now the new normal. She almost died in the course of one pregnancy before she could be transported by private vehicle to the Brack emergency room from Bastrop county. /3

Twelve states, including several in the South, had less than a third of their rural hospitals still offering labor and delivery services. /2

I won’t try to go through the full list of Trump’s economic lies. Daniel Dale has a fairly comprehensive run-through at CNN. /2