27.5 million Americans don’t have health insurance, a number that has risen steadily during Trump’s tenure. A 2018 poll found that 44 percent — nearly half — of Americans didn’t see a doctor because they couldn’t afford it, and that nearly a third didn’t get their prescriptions filled because it was too expensive. And another recent survey found that 90 percent of Americans still go to work while they’re sick.
Does this sound like a country that is equipped to deal with a pandemic? Our cruel, for-profit healthcare system is practically designed to keep us sick. When insurers’ profits take precedence over people’s lives, it becomes nearly impossible to tackle a public health crisis. It’s time for Medicare for All.
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time bomb
NOUN
NOUN
verb [T]
to shape something again or differently
stealth
adj. (chiefly of aircraft) designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar or sonar difficult: a stealth bomber.
spur was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.
spur
━━ n. 拍車; 刺激 ((to, for)); 激励; （鳥の）けづめ; 木の根; （岩・山の）突出部; （鉄道などの）支線.
on the spur of the moment 時のはずみで; とっさに. win one's spurs 名をあげる, てがらをたてる.━━ v. （-rr-） 拍車をかける［つける］ ((on, onward)); 激励［刺激］する ((on, to, into)); 促進する; 馬を飛ばす.
spur a willing horse 必要以上にせき立てる.
spur gear [wheel] 【機】平(ひら)歯車. spur-of-the-moment ━━ a. 即席の.
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