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NYC Nurse Calls to Nationalize the U.S. Healthcare System

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“As New York state’s death toll from coronavirus passes 4,000, nurses and medical workers on the frontlines in New York City are protesting for better protections. Sarah Dowd, a registered nurse who works in its medical/surgical unit and has been treating COVID-19-positive patients, spoke to Democracy Now! from the demonstration she helped organize outside Harlem Hospital on Monday. She is a member of the New York State Nurses Association union. “The issue here is that we are looking at a system of healthcare — not just in New York, but throughout the country — that prioritizes extracting a profit,” says Dowd, who supports Medicare for All but says the U.S. should go even further, such as nationalizing the healthcare system. “This is what happens when you have people running the system that are not direct workers, when they’re absorbed with their bottom line, and the politicians who write the policy are owned by them — and really the people that suffer are the people on the frontlines and the patients.”

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch their livestream 8-9 AM ET: https://democracynow.org

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