For our last email of 2022, we asked our team to share their top five accomplishments from the year.
Together, here’s just some of what you helped us accomplish this year to build support for Medicare for All in Congress, hold the corporate health care industry accountable, and grow our movement for transformative change:
Led by Senator Sanders as chair of the Budget Committee, the first ever hearing on Medicare for All took place in the U.S. Senate in May on the same day as the bill introduction. Our very own Executive Director, Bonnie Castillo, testified on behalf of nurses in patients in support of Medicare for All.
Our 3rd ever cohort of the Leadership School kicked off in mid-June with several dozen committed nurses and community members across the country. Students in the program committed to an intensive, 3-month long program to become trained on the skills necessary to be successful grassroots leaders in their workplaces and communities in the fight for Medicare for All.
We were so proud to successfully graduate 24 students from the program at the end of August!
We had over 1,100 people sign up to volunteer on this campaign over the last several months — and thanks to their efforts, over 70 candidates and elected officials from around the country have now taken the pledge.
This year, we turned up the heat in our corporate campaign calling on CVS Health to stop bankrolling anti-Medicare for All efforts.
On May 11, NNU President and RN, Jean Ross joined CVS Health’s virtual annual shareholder meeting to ask their executives directly: Which side are you on?
CVS was forced to respond on the spot then, as well as following our action in Las Vegas where we rallied outside one of their flagship stores and hand delivered 35,000 petition signatures.
Our action was covered by multiple local news outlets, and CVS was forced to respond when asked for comment. Sadly, they repeated their same inadequate stance from earlier in the year, but our collective organizing against CVS Health this year was a powerful corporate campaign.
This year, we continued to build momentum for single-payer health care in California — also known as CalCare.
In 2022, we successfully passed CalCare through two Assembly committees and moved it onto the Assembly floor. Just four years earlier, we couldn’t move this bill past the Speaker’s desk, and this year, we not only had Speaker Anthony Rendon’s vocal support for CalCare, we had reached the Assembly floor.
Despite this momentum, lawmakers chose to pull the bill before it could be voted on — but this was a huge milestone, and we got to work right away preparing for our next window of opportunity to pass this bill.
We successfully helped elect nine CalCare Champions to the State Senate and Assembly — setting the stage for a historic amount of support for CalCare in the capitol this upcoming session!
This year has been a WILD ride. But, despite everything, we were able to accomplish so much in 2022 thanks to people like you stepping up and taking action with us.
We are immensely proud of the work that we’ve done together, and all of the incredible volunteers who have joined us.
Thank you for all your support and efforts, and we can’t wait to keep growing this movement with you in 2023.
Happy New Year,
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
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