First, CVS donated millions of dollars to attack Medicare for All by funding a dark money lobbying group, The Partnership for America's Health Care Future.
Then, we called on CVS to publicly cut ties with the Partnership, including at their annual shareholders meeting this past May.
Now, CVS Health is attempting to acquire a primary-care company, consolidating their power as a health care monopoly and giving patients fewer options for quality care.1
If CVS and other corporate giants continue to enter the primary care market (like Amazon’s recent acquisition of One Medical), that will mean higher costs and lower quality care for patients and worse working conditions for health care workers.
While we fight the creeping monopolization of health care by CVS Health, we must not let them off the hook for their million of dollars in anti-Medicare for All spending.
When we fight for Medicare for All, we’re not just fighting for health care for all — we’re fighting for every patient to have high-quality, direct, hands-on care by registered nurses and other professional caregivers. When the largest corporations on the planet get involved, the opposite is all but guaranteed.
We’re preparing to deliver tens of thousands of signatures from people across the country directly to CVS Health this fall, and we want to make sure your voice is counted. CVS must permanently and publicly cut ties with the largest anti-Medicare for All corporate front group in the country.
In solidarity,
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
1 - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/03/cvs-says-it-plans-to-get-into-primary-care-by-year-end.html