"In my on-boarding to Congress, I get to pick my insurance plan.
As a waitress, I had to pay more than TWICE what I’d pay as a member of Congress," Ocasio-Cortez wrote Saturday afternoon.
"It’s frustrating that Congressmembers would deny other people affordability that they themselves enjoy.
In my on-boarding to Congress, I get to pick my insurance plan.
As a waitress, I had to pay more than TWICE what I’d pay as a member of Congress.
Ocasio-Cortez is one of several progressive freshman lawmakers supportive of Medicare-for-All, a system that would extend government Medicare coverage to every American.
70 percent of Americans would support an implementation of such a system, according to a poll from Hill.TV and the Harris Polling Company in October. »
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