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Every few months, we like to take a step back and give you an overview of
our plans for the months ahead to build pressure and grow our movement to
pass Medicare for All.
[ [link removed] ]To read the full Spring Organizing Plan, you can check out our latest
Medium post here, or read on for the high level summary below.
Here’s a quick overview of what we’re working on, why it matters, and
where we need your help:
Making gains in the House
Right now we have 121 cosponsors of the Medicare for All bill, H.R. 1976 –
the highest ever level of support for this bill. Getting all these new
co-sponsors took a huge amount of effort and shows that this hard work
pays off. We will continue to pressure our priority elected officials from
the Fall in addition to three new priority districts: Rep. Darren Soto,
FL-09 (Orlando), Rep. Andy Kim, NJ-03 (Burlington County), and Rep. Julia
Brownley, CA-26 (Ventura County). We believe that we can push these
members to sign on with the right amount of local organizing and national
pressure.
If you live in one of these districts, [ [link removed] ]sign up here to step up and get
involved in our local organizing efforts. And if you know someone who
lives in one of these districts, please pass the form on to them!
Laying the groundwork in the Senate
While our support and momentum in the House continues to grow, we need to
build more power in the Senate. Our hope is that Senator Bernie Sanders
will re-introduce the Senate version of the Medicare for All bill in the
next few months, and we need to make sure we are ready if that happens.
To do this, we’re setting up Senate Organizing Committees in all states
with at least one Democratic U.S. senator. We need people to step up who
are willing to take on a leadership role and collaborate on an effort to
get one or both of your senators to support Medicare for All.
[ [link removed] ]If you live in one of our target states, sign up to join the Senate
Organizing Committee in your state. We will connect you with other local
Medicare for All champions, and you’ll receive all the materials,
training, and support you need to get started.
Medicare for All Fest
As a national movement we will support these local and statewide
organizing efforts and come together on Saturday, April 23rd, for a
virtual “Medicare for All Fest”!
Medicare for All Fest will be a massive virtual Day of Action to bring
more visibility and energy to all our local campaigns and provide a chance
for people in those areas and across the country to get plugged in. And
we’re proud to share that it will be our first national campaign event
with live Spanish interpretation.
[ [link removed] ]We’ll have music, art, speakers, and more on Zoom. We are inviting all
supporters of Medicare for All to join us. You can sign up here.
Nurses will continue the fight in California
AB 1400, also known as CalCare, was our single-payer guaranteed health
care bill that was introduced into the California State Assembly in early
2021. Unfortunately, AB 1400 failed to move forward by its deadline of
January 31st.
It is our intention to keep building on this effort and introduce a new
bill in next year’s legislative session. We are proud of the thousands of
people who took action with us and the scale of organizing that took place
and will build on these efforts next year. If you live in California, stay
tuned for some immediate next steps from us soon on how we can improve the
legislative landscape for CalCare next year.
Taking on our corporate opponents
We will need legislation to enact Medicare for All, but we will also need
a head on fight with our corporate opponents if we are to get to a place
where passing legislation is possible. In order to win health care as a
human right, we have to take our fight directly to the corporations that
are spending millions of dollars to try to stop us.
That fight starts with CVS Health and the Partnership for America’s Health
Care Future. The Partnership is the most powerful dark-money lobbying
group trying to block Medicare for All. And CVS Health, now the largest
health care corporation in the world, is their largest single known donor
to date.^1
We are challenging CVS repeatedly and demanding that they publicly cut
ties with the Partnership. We will be turning up the heat over the next
few months in the build up to the biggest day in the corporate calendar,
CVS’s annual shareholder meeting.
Ahead of the shareholder meeting, we’re launching a CVS art contest this
month! We are calling on all artists and creatives in the movement to help
take CVS’s logo, slogan, and other aspects of their branding and create
art that shows CVS for what they really are: a company profiteering from
people’s pain while spending millions to keep our health care system
dysfunctional.
[ [link removed] ]You can find out more about the art contest and get involved here.
Building the movement we need to win
To be truly powerful, this movement must include and represent all working
people. It is essential that we are building a diverse multicultural
movement. We are working to make that happen, and we need your help.
Our Medicare para Todos program engages native Spanish speakers. Through
our texting program so far, we’ve successfully sent over 400,000 texts to
Spanish-speaking voters in California to identify supporters and plug them
into our campaign. We are now preparing to launch a Spanish-language Call
Team to call Spanish-speaking supporters of Medicare for All to further
engage them in our campaign.
If you are a fluent Spanish speaker we need you to get involved. You can
[ [link removed] ]use this form to sign up to join our Texting Team, our Call Team, or
both!
We are also running English and Spanish language webinars on the racial
disparities of our current health system and the ways that Medicare for
All would seek to address them. You can [ [link removed] ]sign up for an English language
webinar here and a [ [link removed] ]Spanish webinar here. Our staff is also available to
present these webinars — in English or Spanish — to partner organizations
that work directly with communities of color — [ [link removed] ]so get in touch if that
is you.
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We believe that these strategic pillars — building our movement, focusing
on specific elected officials in the House and Senate, and taking on our
corporate opponents — will help move us closer to our goal of health care
justice for all.
We know that change as big as what we are demanding is not easy, but we
also know that there is no force as strong as people united together in a
fight for justice.
Thank you for everything, and we are honored to work alongside you.
Onward!
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
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