Murphy criticizes capitalist models of health care, saying that a for-profit model of any part of the health care system is bad for Americans. She tells a story of her dying mother\u2019s struggle to get her insurance company to cover the care she needed for cancer treatments near the end of her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must guarantee health care for people who are sick, focus on the health of Minnesotans, and control health care costs,\u201d Murphy wrote. \u201cWe must make strategic and difficult choices with valuable resources, putting the health of Minnesotans ahead of health insurance profit making.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Asked how this plan would be paid for, Murphy responded “with golden coins borne down from heaven by unicorns [1]”<\/p>\n
[1] Fake but conceptually accurate.<\/p>\n
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