[1]NNU - Medicare for All!



Today is the final day of Women’s History Month, and with ongoing
political attacks on reproductive freedom, gender-affirming care, and
Medicare and Medicaid, it’s crucial that we keep up the fight for health
care justice for everyone in this country.

All women — including transgender and nonbinary people — deserve health
care.

It should be that simple. However, women continue to face worsening
barriers to care:

* Since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022, one in
three women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban,
and Republicans are pushing other restrictions on abortion care, birth
control, and IVF.^1
* President Trump signed an executive order (which has so far been
blocked by courts) to cut off all federal funding for providers of
gender-affirming health care to trans patients under the age of 19.^2
In Kentucky, state Republicans just banned the use of Medicaid for
gender-affirming care.^3
* Congressional Republicans are threatening to further privatize
Medicare while cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid,
which would hurt millions of women across the country.^4

While we fight back against these attacks, we must keep building momentum
for a single-payer health care system in which everyone gets the care they
need and deserve: Medicare for All. We’re currently less than one month
away from the reintroduction of the Medicare for All bill in Congress!

As it stands, the current Medicare for All bill would guarantee abortion
as a service in states where it’s legal, cover the cost of abortion care
free at the point of service, and prohibit the Hyde Amendment (which
restricts federal funds from being spent on abortion) from applying to
Medicare for All funds.

Last time Medicare for All legislation was introduced, we also won the
addition of gender-affirming care to be covered as a part of guaranteed,
comprehensive health care for all people under the program.

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In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 

1 - [ [link removed] ]1 in 3 U.S. Women Lack Access to Abortion Care After End of Roe

2 - [ [link removed] ]Judge orders longer-term nationwide block on Trump orders on
transgender youth health care

3 - [ [link removed] ]Bill to block trans Kentuckians from using Medicaid for
gender-affirming health care now law

4 - [ [link removed] ]Senators Grill Oz on Medicaid Cuts and Medicare Changes



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