Long story short: tell Congress to stop arming Israel, tell a big pharma CEO to make his drugs more affordable, and tell PA state legislators to expand health care access. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to stop a $20 billion weapons sale to Israel. You have noticed, I trust, that Israel has, ah, expanded the war on Palestine into Lebanon by blowing up pagers? That turned out to be about as "surgical" as the November air strikes on Gaza. And it's also more evidence, if we needed it, that Mr. Netanyahu has no intention of eliminating Hamas or (even) securing Israel from their enemies, but only wants to create more crises that require the people of Israel to cleave to him. And we're helping him do that! So we should stop helping him do that.
More Perfect Union helps you tell the CEO of Novo Nordisk to stop price-gouging good Americans for weight loss drugs. If you know anyone who responds by saying well people should just stop getting fat ha ha ha snort, then, well, here are three things you can say: 1) one of those two drugs, Ozempic, helps diabetics, 2) our subsidization of high-fructose corn syrup has made our obesity problem much worse, and 3) "I can see you ain't missin' no meals." I'm guessing at the last one, but I bet I'm not wrong. Also too, they charge Americans for these drugs more than they charge the British. Which is another oblique argument for a Medicare-for-all health insurance system, I suppose.
Finally, Pennsylvania residents, take note: Health Care Voices helps you tell your PA state legislator to help ensure that big health care corporations actually provide care for good Pennsylvanians. Specifically, you'd tell them to pass HB 2344, which will help good Pennsylvanians speak out against hospital mergers and closures that affect their community (right, former Hahnemann patients?), and HB 2339 would make hospitals publish prices and fees so good Pennsylvanians can know what they're getting into. These bills would make health care better, so they deserve our support.
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