What’s the Path Forward for Medicare for All?

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In February, House Democrats will be re-introducing legislation to create a universal, single-payer healthcare system in the United States. Leading the effort will be Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington. Ryan Grim talks to Jayapal about her strategy and, to Jasmine Ruddy of National Nurses United about the organizing taking place outside of congress.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Ryan Grimm.
0:06.8	A few weeks ago, for what we thought would be the first show of the new year, we connected
0:11.1	with Congressman Pramila Jayapal and Jasmine Ruddy.
0:14.3	Ruddy is a lead organizer on Medicare for All for National Nurses United, a nurses union
0:19.0	that has been pushing Medicare for All since its founding.
0:21.5	But as we are getting ready to put the show out...
0:23.8	We're seeing protesters overcome the police.
0:27.2	The police are now running back into the Capitol building.
0:30.8	We have cheers from the protesters that are watching behind the scenes.
0:35.4	So plans changed and we re-interviewed Jayapal about her harrowing experience in the House
0:39.5	gallery as rioters tried to smash their way through the door protecting her and roughly
0:43.8	a dozen other trapped members of Congress.
0:46.6	You can go back and listen to that episode if you haven't yet, where she also talks
0:49.8	about getting infected with COVID after being crammed in a room for hours with mass-closed
0:54.1	Republicans.
0:55.1	Yet as the feds continue their insurrection roundup, there are still more than 30 million
0:59.3	people uninsured in America and millions more underinsured.
1:03.3	A crisis at any time, but particularly so in the midst of a pandemic and extreme economic
1:08.2	precarity.
1:09.7	Sometime later in February, Jayapal will be reintroducing the Medicare for All legislation
1:13.8	she first put forward in 2019, and the nurses union is launching a nationwide effort to
1:18.6	pressure Democrats to co-sponsored.
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