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On the recordNovember 17, 2025
the healthcare system that we have today doesn't work for anyone except if you are an insurance company. I hear it from Vermonters all the time: Our healthcare system is on the brink, and every choice Republicans make leads us further into collapse. Republicans have no plan for healthcare, and they never have. For the last 15 years, all they have done is try to repeal, defund, deauthorize, and dismantle the Affordable Care Act with no alternative ever presented. Americans are so tired of hearing about a concept of a plan or volumes of ideas. Mr. Speaker, I will tell you the plan: Medicare for all. I will tell you the vision. It is that every American has access to affordable healthcare, to good jobs, to good schools, to clean air and water, housing they can actually afford, safer communities, and a functioning democracy. That is the vision. I want the American people to know that Democrats are not giving up on healthcare. We are going to continue to fight.
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Becca Balint
Democratic · Vermont

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Addressing the failures of the current healthcare system and advocating for Medicare for All.

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