Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

November 15, 2022 at 8:12 PM

Meet the new Medicare for All supporters elected to Congress!

Meet the new members of Congress who support Medicare for All. We’re SO thrilled to congratulate and welcome these new members of Congress who won their elections last Tuesday on a platform of supporting Medicare for All! Greg Casar - TX-35 Summer Lee - PA-12 Valerie Foushee - NC-04 Shri Th…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

October 28, 2022 at 4:08 PM

A long shot

Are you or someone you know currently in elected office or running for office? This may be a bit of a long shot, but we need to ask:  Are you or someone you know currently in elected office? Or, are you or anyone you know running for a state or local position? It could be city council, mayor, …

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  Max Cotterill · [email protected]

October 19, 2022 at 9:02 PM

Patients Over Profits

There are only two and a half weeks until Election Day. Ahead of the 2022 midterms, we set a goal of getting at least 100 state and local candidates and elected officials to put patients over profits and pledge to reject campaign contributions from the corporate health care industry. We’ve pa…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

October 17, 2022 at 9:28 PM

We showed up at CVS in a big way

Two days ago, volunteers in thirteen states showed up at dozens of CVS stores to demand CVS Health leadership put patients before profits: In Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania, RNs and activ…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

October 12, 2022 at 9:19 PM

Patients over profits

We’re showing up at CVS stores across the country this Saturday. A New York Times report from the past weekend makes it clear: Private health care companies do not care about patients — only profits. They use elaborate systems to make patients appear as sick as possible, costing us billions o…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

October 4, 2022 at 8:25 PM

We reached a major milestone

We officially passed the halfway mark with 55 confirmed signers on the Patients Over Profits pledge. Big news.  Ahead of the 2022 midterms, we set a goal of getting at least 100 state and local candidates and elected officials to pledge to reject campaign donations from the corporate health ca…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

October 2, 2022 at 3:03 PM

[WATCH] Normal Ain’t Normal

Watch Episode 1 of this powerful project now! If this pandemic taught us anything, it’s that none of us can ever be really healthy until ALL of us are healthy. That’s why National Nurses United and Rosario Dawson are teaming up in the fight for Medicare For All in the first episode of the new…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

September 30, 2022 at 7:03 PM

BREAKING: CVS responded to us

CVS responded to our demand that they cut ties with The Partnership for America’s Health Care Future. We’re in the news! After our event in Las Vegas earlier this week, several local news stations featured stories about our efforts to make CVS Health cut ties with the Partnership for America’…

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  Max Cotterill · [email protected]

September 28, 2022 at 10:04 PM

Yesterday’s event in Las Vegas

We need your help to amplify our demand and share what happened yesterday. Yesterday, nurses and Medicare for All supporters gathered at one of CVS Health’s most iconic stores on the Las Vegas Strip to demand that they permanently and publicly cut ties with the Partnership for America’s Heal…

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  Max Cotterill · [email protected]

September 22, 2022 at 7:52 PM

CVS

Will you join our CVS update call on Monday, September 26, where we’ll share a huge announcement about what’s next for our CVS campaign? Remember this? NNU President and RN, Jean Ross, attended the CVS Health annual shareholders meeting this past May to ask why they’ve spent millions to block…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

September 20, 2022 at 7:05 PM

Join Monday’s CVS Update Call

CVS must publicly cut ties with the Partnership and commit to supporting what’s best for patients, not their bottom line. When the news dropped last year that CVS was spending millions to stop Medicare for All, we got to work right away. We’ve shown up at their shareholder meetings, held d…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

September 13, 2022 at 10:15 PM

Our plans for CVS

We’ve put a lot of pressure on CVS in the past year, and we won’t stop until they publicly cut ties with the Partnership and commit to supporting what’s best for patients, not their bottom line. It’s been four months since we crashed the CVS Health annual shareholder meeting, and CVS still h…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

September 8, 2022 at 4:15 PM

⏪ Webinar rewind

We just wrapped up our Summer 2022 Webinar Series: Fight for the Future of Health Care, and we wanted to recap what you missed. Email us: [email protected] This email was sent to [email protected]. You can update your information here. Email is the most important way we stay…

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  Candis Roby · [email protected]

September 6, 2022 at 9:21 PM

We want Rep. Soto to see this

Several local TV stations in Central Florida dedicated entire segments to our campaign: My name is Candis — I just graduated from the NNU Medicare for All Leadership School and I’ve been helping to lead the organizing work in my home state of Florida. I wanted to share some very promising new…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

September 1, 2022 at 8:23 PM

Our amazing graduates!

Last night, 24 students graduated from the Summer 2022 Cohort of the NNU Medicare for All Leadership School. We have HUGE celebratory news to share! Last night, 24 students graduated from the Summer 2022 Cohort of the NNU Medicare for All Leadership School. (Check out the amazing photo we sn…

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  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]

August 31, 2022 at 3:39 PM

Need your help to put the pressure on in Florida

We need your help now to ensure these actions have the greatest possible impact. Yesterday, supporters and volunteers in Florida’s 9th Congressional District held an event outside Rep. Darren Soto’s district office to deliver hundreds of constituent signatures calling on him to sign on as a c…

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  Max Cotterill · [email protected]

August 26, 2022 at 7:04 PM

Yesterday’s event in NJ-03

We need your help now to ensure these actions have the greatest possible impact. Yesterday, supporters and volunteers in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District held an event outside Rep. Andy Kim’s district office to deliver hundreds of constituent signatures calling on him to sign on as a c…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

August 24, 2022 at 9:43 PM

fwd: “The Corporate Abuse of Caregivers”

Home All Alone programs increase profits at the expense of caregivers and quality patient care. The next webinar in our Summer 2022 series The Fight for the Future of Health Care, titled: “Corporate Abuse of Caregivers,” is tomorrow at 5pm PT/8pm ET. Sign up now to attend the event and learn …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

August 19, 2022 at 8:03 PM

CVS is entering primary care

CVS Health is attempting to take a stake in a primary-care company. 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, inc…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

August 18, 2022 at 10:43 PM

“The Corporate Abuse of Caregivers”

Home All Alone exacerbates inequalities that are baked into our profit-driven health care system. By now, you’ve already heard from us a few times about the hospital industry's nightmarish plan to increase profits by sending acutely ill patients home to receive “care,” instead of at the hospi…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

August 16, 2022 at 6:37 PM

The election in NY-16

Jamaal is a key progressive leader in the House. Jamaal Bowman’s primary election is in just 7 days, and our team has officially launched our next effort to support his reelection to Congress. Will you join us for a phone bank this Thursday, August 18, to help contact voters? All you need is …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

August 10, 2022 at 9:43 PM

How the Inflation Reduction Act will impact your drug prices

We have some good news. We have some good news. The Senate took an important first step to rein in pharmaceutical price gouging through the Inflation Reduction Act.  This bill — which now moves to the House — marks an exceedingly rare defeat for the pharmaceutical industry, which has long bou…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

August 4, 2022 at 11:16 PM

Help re-elect health care champions

This race was not an even playing field. On Tuesday, Medicare for All champion, Rep. Andy Levin, lost his primary in Michigan’s new 11th District.  Andy is one of the candidates we supported in our new Nurses for Democracy campaign we launched this year to build power and fight back against t…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

July 28, 2022 at 4:33 PM

Amazon has no place in health care

Tech giants like Amazon are competing with corporate chains like CVS Health to corner the health care market and profit off sick patients. The third webinar in our Summer 2022 Public Education Webinar Series is tonight at 5:00 pm PT/8:00 pm ET. Will you RSVP now and join us there? RSVP now …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

July 25, 2022 at 10:53 PM

Just over one week until Andy Levin’s election

There are few other members of Congress who have devoted their lives to building power for workers as much as Andy Levin. Andy Levin’s primary is next week on Tuesday, August 2, and we’re seriously ramping up our efforts to get him reelected. Nurses for Democracy is hosting two phone banks for…

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  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]

July 22, 2022 at 6:35 PM

How you can pitch in

Let’s put on the pressure. Earlier this year, we announced our newest list of five priority representatives in Congress who we believe are most likely to be the next cosponsors of Medicare for All. While your representative isn’t on the list, we still need your help. We feel confident that w…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

July 21, 2022 at 8:52 PM

Technology cannot replace nurses

The consequences of these technologies for nurses and patients are serious. Over the last few months, we’ve written to you about the hospital industry's nightmarish plans to increase profits by sending sick patients back home to receive “care,” misclassifying nurses as independent contractors…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

July 19, 2022 at 3:12 PM

The Women’s Health Protection Act

Call your senators and urge them to suspend the filibuster and pass the Women’s Health Protection Act. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, they stripped away an essential part of health care, risking the wellbeing and safety of women and pregnant people across the count…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

July 18, 2022 at 9:11 PM

All your Medicare for All questions, answered

Our next Medicare for All 101 Webinar is tomorrow — will you join us to learn more about what Medicare for All is and why we’re fighting to win it? Every month, we host a ‘Medicare for All 101’ Webinar to teach folks more about the basics of what Medicare for All is and the failures of our cu…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

July 6, 2022 at 10:09 PM

Nurses are not “gig workers”

The corporate health care industry is trying to restructure our health care system to maximize their profits at the expense of patients. Last week, we had a packed webinar to discuss the future of health care and the hospital industry's nightmarish new “Home All Alone” plan.  Under this new s…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

June 30, 2022 at 9:13 PM

Tonight’s Summer Webinar Series

Right now, the health care industry is attempting to misclassify nurses as independent contractors and turn our jobs into gig work. It’s what we’re calling the “gigification” of health care — and it’s about nothing more than increasing profits by cutting labor costs for hospitals. To learn m…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

June 29, 2022 at 10:37 PM

Recapping our call

I’ll share a quick summary of what we covered and how you can jump in. Last night, close to 500 people joined our latest Medicare for All National Strategy Call to hear campaign updates and get plugged into the next steps ahead in our fight. I wanted to share a quick summary of what we cove…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

June 28, 2022 at 4:06 PM

Mark your calendar for tonight

There’s still time to join our Medicare for All National Strategy Call TONIGHT. There’s still time to join our Medicare for All National Strategy Call TONIGHT to get caught up and ready to hit the ground running before the midterm elections. Will you join? Here are the details: Medicare f…

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  Sofia Sepulveda · [email protected]

June 27, 2022 at 7:52 PM

Join me June 29

Your voice is so important to this movement. Hi, I'm Sofia. I’m reaching out today to invite you to a special upcoming webinar. Before I do, let me tell you a bit about who I am. I am a first generation Mexican American trans woman, and for the past nine years, I’ve been organizing around heal…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

June 24, 2022 at 8:01 PM

Abortion is health care

Registered nurses understand that abortion is a basic health care service. The Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade today is a shameful and dangerous assault on women, other child-bearing people, and families at a sweeping scale. You can read NNU’s full statement on today’s decision…

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  Max Cotterill · [email protected]

June 23, 2022 at 8:53 PM

330,000 lives

Medicare for All would've saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the pandemic. A new study confirms what we already knew: Medicare for All would've saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the pandemic, and the U.S. could have saved more than $100 billion in health care costs.1 Nurses…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

June 22, 2022 at 11:22 PM

Dangerous scheme

The health care industry is trying to take a page out of Uber’s playbook. Last month, we wrote to you about the hospital industry's nightmarish plan to increase profits by sending sick patients home to receive “care,” instead of at the hospital where they belong. But that’s not the only part …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

June 21, 2022 at 10:05 PM

MI-11

There are few other members of Congress who have devoted their lives to building power for workers as much as Andy Levin. Right now in Michigan, Congressmember Andy Levin is facing a tough race for reelection in the new 11th District. Andy is a true champion for Medicare for All — he is an or…

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  Jasmine & Alex · [email protected]

June 17, 2022 at 6:53 PM

Will you write a quick note to our students?

A few kind words can make a big impact. Earlier this week, we officially kicked off the Summer 2022 Medicare for All Leadership School with 45 volunteer leaders from a diversity of backgrounds and walks of life who are taking their skills in the movement to the next level. Together they are g…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

June 16, 2022 at 7:24 PM

Medicare for All + the midterm elections

Elections are a crucial time when voters and candidates have to decide where they stand on key issues like Medicare for All. The midterm elections are upon us. Election day is November 8 (less than 5 months away). These elections are a crucial time when voters and candidates have to decide wh…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

June 14, 2022 at 9:54 PM

Now is a key moment

Politicians are looking to secure votes – but they’ll have to earn them. With the midterm elections quickly approaching, many elected officials and candidates are in full campaign mode.  That means that these next few months are a crucial time to put the pressure on and secure commitments on …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

June 2, 2022 at 9:33 PM

“I didn’t realize all this was going on in the health care industry”

If you missed last week’s event, don’t worry. Last week, over one hundred nurses and activists joined us for our first webinar in our summer series, The Fight for the Future of Health Care. If you couldn’t make it to the webinar, don’t worry — you can watch a full recording of the event here. …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

May 25, 2022 at 5:24 PM

Re: CVS Minute Clinics

There’s still time to register and learn more about the next fight for the future of health care. As you’re reading this email, hospital executives are maneuvering to push patients in need of acute care out of the hospital and into caring for themselves at home. This has already contributed to…

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  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]

May 20, 2022 at 4:07 PM

Meet the 14 senators

Meet the 14 health care champions in the Senate who signed on to support Medicare for All. It takes courage to go up against the status quo and fight for systemic change.  That’s why we want to extend our thanks on behalf of our entire movement to the 14 health care champions in the Senate (…

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

May 19, 2022 at 10:45 PM

You’re sick? Here’s an iPad

“Home All Alone” is a nightmarish new scheme — and we’re taking action to stop it. Right now, the hospital industry is peddling a dangerous new scheme we’re calling “Home All Alone” — a nightmarish plan to care for sick patients in their own homes instead of at the hospital where they belong. …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

May 18, 2022 at 11:06 PM

What the CVS CEO said to our President:

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch responded — but what she said is wholly inadequate. On the day of the CVS Health annual shareholders meeting last week, we made sure our demand for health care justice was front and center. But now we need to keep up the momentum. Will you join our call for CVS Heal…

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  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]

May 17, 2022 at 4:15 PM

Huge

Last Thursday was a huge moment for our movement. Last Thursday was a huge moment for our movement:  Senator Bernie Sanders reintroduced the Medicare for All bill in the Senate with 14 original cosponsors after the first-ever hearing in the Senate on Medicare for All. The hearing included po…

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  Nurses' Campaign · [email protected]

May 12, 2022 at 7:56 PM

A historic moment for our movement

Moments ago, Senator Bernie Sanders officially reintroduced the Medicare for All Act of 2022 into the U.S. Senate along with an impressive 14 original cosponsors. Moments ago, Senator Bernie Sanders officially reintroduced the Medicare for All Act of 2022 into the U.S. Senate along with an …

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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]

May 11, 2022 at 6:30 PM

[Breaking] CVS responded to us at their shareholder meeting

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch responded to our question at their annual shareholder meeting this morning. We did it. We took our demands directly to CVS Health during their biggest day of the year and forced them to answer to our movement. NNU President and RN Jean Ross attended the CVS Health an…

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  Bonnie Castillo, RN, NNU Executive Director · [email protected]

May 10, 2022 at 7:34 PM

Something big is coming Thursday

Are you ready? I’m Bonnie Castillo, RN and executive director of National Nurses United. I wanted to reach out to let you know about an important opportunity to advance our movement this week. Yesterday Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, announced that his committe…

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