Awesome. Everywhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Nice So, We're gonna get started in about three minutes. you'll be to continue getting to know everyone but just a heads up. Thanks so much for coming. Awesome. hi everyone so conversation started Okay. can everybody hear me alright or shall I use this microphone? It'll just mean I have to use both my hands instead of one of them and I will be able to just right you in a much is that okay everyone in the back you can hear me. Yeah. okay. Cool amazing. Well welcome everyone. I'm Shannon. I'm a member and organizer with Democratic Socialists of America and this is our town Hall, Medicare Bernie Sanders and the fight for. Problem we have a really great program set up for you today. We have four wonderful speakers but I think you'll all be really excited to hear from all of them are movement leaders organizers activists people who have been thinking about single payer and thinking about how we can build a better and more just society for all of us. it's so amazing today to have health advocates, Union members people from the community, Socialist and organizers all gathered here to talk about what we can do to change our nation's health care system. These kinds of conversations are. Decisive for our future to start off with answering me a question. tell me how many of you think you deserve better health care? Yeah, I mean too we're live streaming. It's okay, but tell me who feels ripped off by the private health insurance system. Tired of co-pays deductibles. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well frustrating as the situation is. I'm glad we're all here today because DSA don't credit socials of America and our endorsed candidates. Bernie Sanders. Alright wrist support The forest. All here to say no more to profits on our health care. We need a fair system for all of us. We all need to live healthy, good lives and the way things are right now. If that's not something that's happening for most Americans. What is our nation's health care system? Look like today? It's one in which too many families avoid the doctor for fear of a huge bill that can afford. It's one in which most of us have a narrow choice of who we see for health care. it's one in which four communities see older hospitals and longer wait times. And it's one in which life saving drugs are oftentimes too expensive to afford. Does that sound like a just fair system? That's giving everyone a shot at living a good life. No no, it does not and even more injust is the fact that meanwhile, it's what it's this is a system where the private health insurance industry and the drug companies are making tens of billions of dollars each year. That's 14 zeros an incredible amount of money. This is a. It serves the rich and not ordinary working class people. But there is a solution and it's legislation that will transform health care in the United States. There are two bills. We're gonna talk about today, One federal in one local and that's at the federal level. Medicare for All introduced by Bernie Sanders and Prologis appalled. And at the state level, the New York Health Act introduced by Richard Gottfried, Whoo. Both of these pills bills with transform our nation's health care system by giving quality universal care to all. they're also really simple. So I'm gonna explain to you What these bills are cuz we're gonna hear a lot about different aspects of the health care system. We're gonna hear about people's experiences as patients and providers but it's important that we understand I think what the alternative is going forward so five key principles one a single system that means that instead. Having 20 different insurance companies, you know provided by that you get on the healthy Exchange or that you get through your employer or Medicaid Medicare. Instead, we have one system that's one pair the federal government everyone's on the same plan and importantly, that means no more private health insurance an end to profits on our health care. Two is comprehensive and I mean comprehensive mental dental basic care long-term care. There's no such thing as a pre-existing condition under Medicare for all whoo more than your health right. Three, it covers everyone that means that whether you're old young have a pre-existing condition, whatever your you know you're a citizen, you're undocumented. you're an immigrant whatever the case may be if you're inside the borders of the United States or where in New York State, you're going to get this health care and also importantly, it means that you're going to be able to choose your doctor. It covers every doctor too. So you know, instead of having a really narrow choice of whoever takes your particular plan in network, you're going to be able to choose from. Arrange of options. And five in the National Medicare for all fans, there's also a job span. Hospitals, which are which are basically like sending bills back and forth coordinating these things managing this really complex system with all of its life, bureaucratic tunnels and whatever those people will no longer have a job in a single pair system. and so it's important that those people have access to jobs training. good severance plans coming out of their jobs and new positions to go into in a new and growing health insurance industry that we think will come out. Transitioning the single pair and modernizing our health care system so that it looks like what the rest of the industrialized developed world's health care looks like. So that's pretty simple right Five main principles. a single plan comprehensive universal free at the point of service. Oh, I didn't say that Whoa. Okay, the best part about this. The best part. This was practicing too, but the best part is that you're gonna walk away without a bill. Every time you go to the doctor. You're going to you're gonna show up. get your hair and afterwards you're going. you're not going to have to worry about how you gonna pay for it. You're not gonna have a debt collector coming after you're none of that. It means that no one will have to go into debt to get health care again, and of course, it means that you know in terms of going to the doctor. It's going to feel like it's free. so that's it today we have an amazing list of speakers who will talk to us all about how we can build a fighting movement to win these bills because the private health insurance industry like I said, is very powerful. The direction of these are very powerful. They shape what our nation's health care or sorry politics look like and the only way that we're going to. It is by all of us getting involved all of us understanding that when we come together, we can fight back as community members as Union members activists and organizers and so we're going to hear from people who dedicated their lives to thinking that way about politics to getting other people involved and I think it's going to be really great. Bernie Sanders is right when he says that this isn't about candidates and we'll have two as you know speaking with us today but it's about all of us. I think everyone here believes that so let me give it up now for support a friend and