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.
Here’s a quick overview of what we’re working on, why it matters, and where we need your help:
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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, 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!
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
You can find out more about the art contest and get involved here.
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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 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 sign up for an English language webinar here and a 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 — so get in touch if that is you.
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
P.S. If you’re on social media, please help us spread the word by sharing our Spring Organizing Plan with your networks.
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