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Control “at the lowest price among G7 countries”—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. This “reasonable price” provision would hammer innova tion as private companies are forced to sell their products at a price determined by countries thousands of miles away with different economic and political forces—countries that are crushing their medical-innovation industries. Americans need to wake up to the encroaching and very real threats to a country where waiting times are in days not weeks, months or years, and where survival rates when we do get sick are among the highest in the world. https://jayapal.house.gov/2023/05/17/jayapal-dingell-sanders-in troduce-medicare-for-all-with-record-number-of-house-cospon sors/ 3 https://jayapal.house.gov/medicare-for-all-act-of-2023-endors ing-organizations/ 4 www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/11/sanders_medicare for-all_would_destroy_americas_health_care_149470.html 5 www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/waiting-your turn-2022.pdf 6 www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2352 7 www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470 2045(20)30388-0/fulltext 8 www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/26/late-diagnosis-of breast-cancer-rises-as-nhs-struggles-in-covid-crisis 9 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092375341931292X 1 0 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/ S1470204507702462 1 1 www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cancer-rates-by-country 1 2 www.politico.eu/article/cancer-europe-america-comparison/ 1 https://jayapal.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/JAYA PA_019_xml-Medicare-for-All-118th-Final32023.pdf 2

Grace-Marie Turner runs the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. Turner testifies regularly before Congress and advises senior government officials, governors and state legislators on health policy. She was named by the speaker of the House to serve as a member of the Long-Term Care Com mission in 2013. Previously, Turner served for a three-year term on the National Advisory Board for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and she served as a member of the Medicaid Commission, making recommendations to mod ernize and improve Medicaid. Turner is founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group, which serves as a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop policy recommendations. She also serves on the boards of the Steamboat Institute and the Winston Fellowship and is a volunteer policy advisor to the Catholic Medical Association, Paragon Health Institute, Docs4Pa tientCare and other organizations. 1 4 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14638619/ 15 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15381645/ 16 www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/what-you should-know-about-the-uninsured 1 7 www.politico.com/newsletters/prescription-pulse/2023/07/05/ sanders-cassidy-want-a-bigger-pahpa-00104673 1 3 www.healthdata.org/research-article/management-diabe tes-and-associated-cardiovascular-risk-factors-seven-countries

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