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

2 - Judge orders longer-term nationwide block on Trump orders on transgender youth health care

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

4 - Senators Grill Oz on Medicaid Cuts and Medicare Changes