, this is not the email we hoped to send you this week.

Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election, and with his second presidency comes multiple threats to our nation’s already broken health care system. His administration could:

• Make Medicare Advantage — a type of lower-quality health care plan that is administered by private health insurers — the default enrollment option, as outlined in Project 2025;
  
  
• Eliminate Medicaid for millions of people by making drastic spending cuts and creating work requirements;
  
  
• End efforts to expand Medicare and Medicare’s authority to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, preventing billions in potential savings for seniors.¹

Union nurses are no strangers to impossible odds and hostile circumstances; we overcome them at work every day. Though some of the election results are not the outcome we wanted, we'll keep doing what we've always done: fight for health care justice for ALL.

No matter who is in the White House, nurses will always stand firm in our work to protect patients and ALL working people.

Nurses will keep speaking truth to power for our patients and fighting to center care in society — not bigotry, fear, or hate – and we’re glad you’re here with us. We are stronger when we stand together in unbreakable solidarity. Across the U.S., we’ll continue to link arms for a society that puts patients over profits and ultimately wins the right to high-quality, guaranteed health care for everyone regardless of ability to pay.

With you by our side, we’ll keep fighting for a just future for all. We’ll be in touch with more reflections and opportunities to take action soon.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 

Sources:

1 - “How health care could change under the new Trump administration”