Xavi Benjamín He/They

A fan­tas­tic arti­cle from @SocialistMMA on why Medicare for All is the most pro-black pol­i­cy platform:

Our black lead­ers sell­ing us out is a tale as old as the slave trade. Barack Oba­ma is a Wall St megas­tar and Jim Clyburn has been made untouch­able by his big phar­ma mon­ey. The health insur­ance com­pa­nies are reward­ed great­ly for their invest­ment. The Afford­able Care Act was a boon to health insur­ance com­pa­nies. Now we have Joe Biden and Democ­rats walk­ing back on health­care promis­es in order to advance COBRA, which is anoth­er mas­sive win for health insur­ance companies.

Big Pharma’s invest­ment in Black lead­ers bought their oppo­si­tion to Medicare for All. Jim Clyburn has been a vocal advo­cate against it. Barack Oba­ma worked behind the scenes to stop it and con­tin­ues to under­mine it at every turn. The leader of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, said he would veto it if it some­how mag­i­cal­ly passed through the House and the Sen­ate. 46% of Repub­li­cans sup­port Medicare for All. Our Black Lead­ers and Democ­rats are to the RIGHT of almost half of Repub­li­cans vot­ers on healthcare.

Nick right­ly makes the argu­ment that you can’t say Black Lives Mat­ter while sup­port­ing a bro­ken health­care sys­tem that black peo­ple over­whelm­ing­ly feel the brunt of.

We need Medicare for All. Now.