Barkan, who has ALS, once confronted Senator Jeff Flake on a plane about proposed tax cuts.
Health care activist and lawyer Ady Barkan, who is battling a terminal disease, will travel across the U.S. to give evidence at Congress’s first ever hearing on Medicare for All.
Activist Ady Barkan attends the Los Angeles Supports a Dream Act Now! protest at the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein on January 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. He is set to testify before Congress about the Medicare For All bill. Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images Of the four people testifying for Democrats, only one was a champion for Medicare for All, the single-payer health care system that would transition everyone to Medicare, the Huffington Post reported.
He went public with experience of terminal ALS after he was diagnosed in 2016. In 2017, he challenged U.S. Senator Jeff Flake on a flight about his vote on proposed tax cuts, which Barkan argued would have a knock-on effect on people’s access to medical cover and social security payments, CNN reported.
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