[1]NNU - Medicare for All!
Over the last few months, we've been sharing periodic updates with you all
about our work in California to pass single-payer health care in the
state. To keep you all in the loop, we wanted to share with you directly
what happened with the bill, AB 1400, and where we go from here.
[ [link removed] ]You can check out the full version in our Medium post here, but we’ll
share some of it below:
To recap, January 31 was the deadline for AB 1400, the California
Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), to pass out of the State
Assembly. The bill passed the Health and Appropriations committees and was
scheduled for a vote on the floor on that Monday.
But it was pulled just minutes before legislators were going to vote and
go on the record about where they stand on guaranteed health care for all
people in California.
We deeply disagreed with the decision to pull the bill. After months of
organizing by thousands of people across the state, this failure by our
elected representatives to take on the greed of the corporate health care
industry was a profound disappointment. In their inaction, legislators
have chosen to maintain a broken status quo instead of putting patients
above profits.
Nevertheless, nurses never give up on their patients. We have fought for
decades to ensure that health care is a human right for all people,
regardless of ability to pay. We will not stop now.
The campaign to pass CalCare this year was just the latest in a
decades-long struggle to transform our health care system. No matter the
outcome this year, we have so much to be proud of.
Together our movement:
* Texted 3.7 million voters across California
* Made nearly 70,000 phone calls
* Sent 12,000 handwritten, personalized postcards with the help of about
600 volunteers
* Trained 33 volunteers in key Assembly Districts to be District Leaders
* Held numerous days of action including car caravans and CalCare Fest
* And so much more
In short, we organized like hell, and together we built one of the most
successful grassroots campaigns to date for guaranteed health care for all
in California.
We now have more active volunteers and are more organized than ever
before. And despite our setback, we are more determined than ever to
continue pushing until we achieve real health care justice.
That’s why we intend to introduce a new bill into the legislature next
year. We’ll share more information closer to the summer about how you can
get involved in those efforts no matter where you live.
Let us be absolutely clear: corporate-friendly incrementalist approaches
to reforming our health care system are incapable of solving the problem.
Piecemeal expansions of insurance only bolster the power of insurance,
hospital, and pharmaceutical corporations and will not ensure that those
who need care can get it.
We must continue building our movement in our communities, in our
hospitals, in the streets, conversation by conversation - until health
care is a right for all people and not just a privilege for those who can
afford it.
We cannot and will not stop until it is done.
[ [link removed] ]To learn more about what happened to CalCare, please read and share our
Medium post here so we can spread the word and grow our movement for the
next round of this campaign.
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Thank you for all you do in the movement. Together, we will win.
Phil Kim
Organizer
Nurses’ Campaign to Win CalCare
P.S. If you’re wondering how you can plug in, our fight for Medicare for
All at the national level isn’t slowing down, and we need your help. We’re
organizing a National Medicare for All Strategy Call on Monday, Feb 28th,
at 5 PT/8 ET. [ [link removed] ]RSVP here to join us on that call!
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