from Public Citizen You might want to sit down. Earlier this week, the Business Roundtable — a trade association made up of the CEOs of giant corporations — sent a letter to Congress. What do they want to do? Increase the eligibility age for Medicare. Make access to Medicare dependent on income. “Modernize” — a.k.a. privatize — Medicare. In other words, the millionaires who run the largest corporations on Earth want to slash the social insurance programs the rest of us rely on. You know what — never mind what I said about sitting down. We have to stand up. We have to stand up for the basic protections that have kept generations of Americans from living out their lives in sickness and poverty. We have to stand up to people who have more money than they could ever need yet still want to squeeze even more from those who have never had enough. At Public Citizen, we’re fighting not only to preserve Medicare, but to improve and expand it into the universal, single-payer health insurance system our nation needs to make the ideal of health care as a human right the reality for every American. Stand up to corporate greed — and help us keep doing critical work like fighting for single-payer, improved and expanded Medicare-for-all health insurance — with a donation to Public Citizen right now. The Business Roundtable’s leadership consists of CEOs from AT&T, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, JPMorgan, Walmart and other mega-corporations. What do they know about what it’s like to worry if you can retire with dignity and security?
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 23:34:12 +0000
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