Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of Health Care in America as “barbarism,” in a forthcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast.
In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of “Bernie: The Podcast,” Ocasio-Cortez lamented the excessive prices of Health Care and housing and the troublesome selections many Individuals should face, as she recommitted to preventing for progressive change.
“The truth that individuals are selecting between medication and hire is barbarism,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned within the preview launched Sunday. “The truth that individuals are frightened about whether or not they are going to be on the road each 4 weeks, is barbarism. The truth that each time an individual has an ache or a ache of their physique, and so they’re scared that IT might both be only a sore joint or most cancers, however they will’t discover out as a result of they will’t afford the physician.”
“That is barbarism. And if we don’t demand, and never solely demand however win unions healthcare, wages, ending countless struggle, then we’ll condemn ourselves to barbarism and I refuse to surrender,” she continued. “I refuse to submit myself to that future. That’s not a life. And so, to reside, now we have to battle for one another.”
The 2 public figures have turn into mainstays in progressive politics and performed a key function to start with of the Biden administration in passing the progressive insurance policies within the Inflation Discount Act, together with capping insulin at $35 for these coated by Medicare and letting Medicare negotiate immediately with drug corporations. Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are each supporters of “Medicare for All” laws.
Sanders launched the podcast almost two months in the past, along with his e-book, “IT’s Alright to Be Indignant about Capitalism.”
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