Labor Day weekend Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care staffed a booth at the World Fest. Enthusiastic supporters lined up to sign the petition urging candidates and elected officials to “boldly support national single payer health care legislation.”
Photo: Jill Harmer uses her fluent Spanish to explain Medicare for All.
As they signed they told their stories. One couple decides each year whether or not they can afford to buy insurance or take the chance of going without. They currently have an ACA plan purchased on the Exchange that costs them $1,400 monthly for the two of them and their daughter.
A woman in a Medcaid/Medicare Advantage plan related how her insurer denies the physical therapy she desperately needs.
People loved the “Enhanced Medicare for All” bumper stickers and the T-shirts.
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