An Open Letter to the CEOs of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase
Dear Mr. Bezos,
As a physicians and health justice advocates, we agree with you that health care is among the greatest issues facing society today. Your tremendous resources provide a unique opportunity to advocate for a health program to benefit all Americans: a universal, single-payer system.
Our nation faces a catastrophic failure on two levels. First, the market has failed to deliver affordable health care to those who need it most. More importantly, our elected officials have failed to enact the reforms that could remedy health care's woes because they are unwilling to offend big donors from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Instead, they've nibbled around the edges with incremental reforms like the Affordable Care Act. The ACA not only failed to kill the tapeworm of profit-based health care, it fattened it up with government subsidies, fueling the twin drivers of health costs--profits and administrative bloat.
Adding one more well-intentioned layer to our labyrinthine health care financing arrangements cannot fix them. Instead, we must to move to one simple nonprofit financing system, known as single payer or Medicare for all. In fact,
As you turn your focus towards health care, we urge you to meet with policy experts who have studied this problem for decades, as well as the health care professionals operating at the front lines of this crisis. Physicians for a
We would be happy to meet with you to discuss how single payer could benefit your workers, your bottom line, and the American economy as a whole.
Sincerely,
President, Physicians for a
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