US Healthcare Professionals for Universal Healthcare- NOW

As frontline workers across the spectrum of care delivery, we write to demand a federal universal health care option. We have seen too many patients die and harmed due to delays in care, suboptimal treatment plans dictated by insurance coverage, critical cost-related medication underuse, and other unnecessary and egregious cost dictated scenarios. We hear too many stories of our patients thrust into financial ruin because of medical debt. The US has the highest cost of care with the poorest outcomes when compared to our international colleagues. We are diagnosticians. We are trained to assess problems and create treatment plans. The problem is the lack of a universal federal insurance option to stabilize care and outcomes. The solution is legislation to craft a national insurance option and the ethics to ensure it becomes law. We cannot stand by any longer. We care for our patients. We know universal healthcare is the right thing to do for their health. We urge you to make it so.