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Wilbanks, Megan
From:Rosh Wright <
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Medicare for all
I should like to voice my support for Medicare for All. I am a retired RN who has worked and received healthcare in the
UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the states of Texas and California. We may have the most advanced technology, but we do
not have the best system. Access to care is horrendously unfair and haphazard, costs are double or more than those
anywhere else, and people literally die because of inconsistent, mercurial decisions by insurance companies. I have first
hand knowledge of this as my late husband died because insurance dragged its feet and put up barriers to the
treatment that was been recommended by Stanford, UCSF and Baylor, TX. I was a Nursing Supervisor at Stanford ‘s
Children’s Hospital and fighting for coverage for desperately sick children was heartbreaking. We need Medicare for All
and we need it now.
D. “Rosh” Wright
SLO City resident
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