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What is single payer health care?
“Medicare” for all Americans. No medical insurance industry, period. No middleman profiting from sickness. The government already pays for medical care for this country’s sick, disabled, poor and elderly. We need to add the healthy work force.
What makes it specifically a women’s issue?

Medical insurance has a big impact on whether women can …