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  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
February 23, 2024 at 7:39 PM

The contributions of Black communities to the fight for health justice

In the third email of our Black History Month series, we’re highlighting some of the many significant contributions Black leaders have made in the ongoing fight for health justice. In the third email of our Black History Month series, we’re highlighting some of the many significant contributi…
  Jasmine Ruddy · [email protected]
February 21, 2024 at 6:20 PM

RSVP for our National Strategy Call next Wednesday!

Join us on February 28 for our next nationwide call to learn more about our Medicare for All organizing strategy and opportunities to plug in. Are you ready to hear our organizing plans to advance the movement for Medicare for All this year? RSVP for our next National Strategy Call coming up …
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
February 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM

Black people faced the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic

In part two of our Black History Month series, we examine the racial disparities in rates of Covid-19 infection, hospitalization, death, and more. It’s Black History Month, so we’re taking the time each week this February to focus on the racial disparities that exist in our current, broken he…
  Max Cotterill · [email protected]
February 12, 2024 at 11:35 PM

A big week for our movement in California

A new bill to establish single-payer, guaranteed health care in California was reintroduced last week in the State Assembly. Last week was a big week for our movement in California. On Wednesday, February 7th, our new CalCare bill (AB 2200) was reintroduced in the California State Assembly by…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
February 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM

We must address the disparities in maternal and infant health

In part one of our Black History Month series, we examine the differences in maternal and infant health outcomes between Black and white patients — and how Medicare for All can help address them. It’s Black History Month, so we’re taking the time each week this February to focus on the racial…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
February 1, 2024 at 8:14 PM

Black History Month

On the first day of Black History Month, we’re introducing our month-long email series on the disparities in health care for Black Americans, and how we can address them. Today marks the beginning of Black History Month. As we reflect on the history, contributions, and culture of the Black co…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
January 23, 2024 at 9:12 PM

The second-largest Covid-19 surge

2024 began with a spike in Covid-19 cases, but people across the country have less resources to prevent and treat this deadly virus. Right now, the United States is experiencing the second-largest Covid-19 surge ever.1 This was somewhat expected as winter drove more people indoors and many ce…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
January 18, 2024 at 8:46 PM

Save the Date for our next National Strategy Call →

Join us on February 28 to hear our Medicare for All organizing plans for 2024. It’s the beginning of another year and people across the United States continue to face unaffordable health insurance deductibles, premiums, copays, prescription drug prices, and more. We know that Medicare for All…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
January 13, 2024 at 12:24 AM

The real reason insulin prices were lowered →

We’re working to get Big Pharma and other for-profit health care industry money out of our politics so we can pass Medicare for All. This year, many people in the United States will see a lower price for insulin — but it’s not because the pharmaceutical companies chose to lower costs out of k…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
January 5, 2024 at 7:29 PM

Two new Patients Over Profits pledge signers!

Help us continue to build the political will to pass Medicare for All and end the for-profit health care industry’s influence on our political process. 2024 is here, and we’re keeping up our Patients Over Profits campaign to get for-profit health care industry money out of our politics and bu…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
December 27, 2023 at 8:04 PM

Happy holidays!

The Medicare for All team wishes you joyful holidays and a happy New Year as we keep up the fight for guaranteed health care in 2024. Email us: [email protected] This email was sent to [email protected]. You can update your information here. Email is the most important way we sta…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
December 21, 2023 at 10:35 PM

Reflecting on 2023

This is a long but important email featuring highlights you helped us achieve over the last year together. As we approach the end of 2023 and reflect back on all we’ve worked to achieve in the past year, we wanted to share our Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All Year In Review! This is a…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
December 14, 2023 at 8:10 PM

Our handy holiday conversation bot is back!

Use our interactive tool to find out how to have an effective conversation about our health care system this holiday season. A few weeks ago, we sent you our interactive Medicare for All conversation bot to help guide you through health care conversations at the holiday dinner table. Now, it’…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
December 7, 2023 at 10:52 PM

Highlights from last night’s Movement Call →

Medicare for All supporters from across the country joined us for our final Movement Call of 2023. Last night, we held our final Medicare for All Movement Call of the year! Here’s what you missed: We were joined by about 120 supporters from across the country where we spent time together in c…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
December 6, 2023 at 1:03 AM

Tomorrow’s Medicare for All Movement Call

Join us for our last quarterly movement call of 2023 to meet with other Medicare for All supporters for updates, training, and discussion. This is your LAST CHANCE to RSVP for our final Medicare for All Movement Call of 2023! Our next quarterly call is happening virtually tomorrow, December 6…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
December 1, 2023 at 7:02 PM

Baltimore just became the latest city to endorse Medicare for All

The local movement for single-payer health care continues to grow! Last week, Baltimore, Maryland became the latest city in the United States to pass a resolution in support of Medicare for All! Our allies at Public Citizen led this effort through their Medicare for All Resolutions campaign. …
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
November 29, 2023 at 8:03 PM

RSVP for our next Medicare for All Movement Call on 12/6

Join us for a chance to meet with other Medicare for All supporters for updates, training, and discussion. Our next quarterly Medicare for All Movement Call is coming up next Wednesday, December 6th at 5pm PT / 8pm ET. RSVP now to join us → This call is an opportunity to join other Medicare f…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
November 22, 2023 at 9:12 PM

The MFA holiday conversation bot is back!

Use our interactive tool to find out how to have an effective conversation about our health care system this holiday season. The holiday season is already here again, and so is our interactive Medicare for All conversation bot! Talking about politics doesn't have to get heated: the vast major…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
November 17, 2023 at 12:22 AM

Save the Date: Medicare for All Movement Call on Dec. 6th

Our next quarterly Medicare for All Movement Call is coming up on Wednesday, December 6th. Join us! Since the federal government’s public health emergency around COVID-19 ended this past March, more than 10 million people have been disenrolled from Medicaid in what’s been deemed the “Medicaid…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
November 15, 2023 at 10:42 PM

Volunteer opportunity with Healthcare-NOW →

Our allies at Healthcare-NOW are in need of volunteers to collect and process thousands of stories from across the United States. Our allies at Healthcare-NOW, a non-profit grassroots coalition that organizes in support of the single-payer health care movement, need our support. Through their…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
November 10, 2023 at 4:12 PM

National Native American Heritage Month

November is National Native American Heritage Month, a time for us to celebrate and honor Native American communities and indigenous people across the United States. According to the U.S. Census, since 2010 the number of people who identify as Native American and Alaska Native has nearly doub…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
October 31, 2023 at 9:29 PM

This Halloween...

Our broken, for-profit health care system is bleeding us dry. Will you help build our movement to win Medicare for All by asking your friends and family to join our campaign across social media? SHARE ON TWITTER » SHARE ON FACEBOOK » PS — Not on social media and don’t want to receive emails w…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
October 27, 2023 at 9:03 PM

Help us hit 150 pledge-signers by Thanksgiving!

Help build our movement for Medicare for All by joining a POP Special Team. Eighteen. That is the number of new signers to the Patients Over Profits pledge just in the last month. That brings our total to 131 politicians who refuse to accept campaign contributions of $200 or more from the for…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
October 25, 2023 at 8:49 PM

More than a 10,000% markup

This is yet another symptom of our broken health care system, and it has to stop. Did you see this? Last week, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced its plan to start charging $1,390 for one five-day course of Paxlovid, a Covid-19 anti-viral treatment.1 What’s worse? It costs less than $14 to …
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
October 19, 2023 at 8:47 PM

Attend this event to get corporate health care money out of politics →

Friend, The Patients Over Profits Pledge calls on politicians to reject campaign contributions from the executives, lobbyists, and PACs affiliated with the corporate health care industry, including private insurers, pharma corporations, and private hospitals who are organizing to take over ou…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
October 12, 2023 at 9:48 PM

Are you a candidate or elected official?

Join our growing movement of politicians pledging to reject contributions from the for-profit health care industry. Why has the United States fallen behind other industrialized countries and failed to establish a single-payer health care system that guarantees health care for all? Because the…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
October 4, 2023 at 4:04 PM

Help get corporate health care money out of politics

Help build our movement for Medicare for All by asking politicians in your community to take our pledge. Our volunteer-driven, nationwide Patients Over Profits (POP) campaign is building the political will for Medicare for All by demanding politicians take our pledge to reject donations of $2…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
September 29, 2023 at 8:31 PM

Victory: Medicaid expansion in North Carolina!

More than 600,000 low-income adults will now have Medicaid coverage. This is a promising step forward: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper just announced this week that Medicaid expansion will go into effect across the state on December 1, 2023. We know that we normally reach out to you about o…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
September 8, 2023 at 8:33 PM

The first 10 drugs to be negotiated by Medicare

This law is set to lower prescription medication prices for tens of millions of seniors, but the corporate health care industry is suing to stop it. We know how the corporate health care industry in the United States has been using their oversized influence on politicians to block even the mo…
  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]
August 31, 2023 at 8:03 PM

Health care CEOs made $4 billion last year. It’s outrageous.

Health care CEOs are making billions of dollars and then using obscene amounts of money to influence politicians through campaign contributions. Did you see this enraging headline?  Health care CEOs are pocketing billions of dollars in salaries and bonuses and then using obscene amounts of mon…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
August 25, 2023 at 6:17 PM

RSVP for Monday’s Patients Over Profits update call →

Learn more about our POP campaign progress and next steps. In case you missed it, we’re hosting a Patients Over Profits Update Call this Monday at 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET to share our recent successes and next steps for building momentum and getting more political candidates to take the pledg…
  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]
August 21, 2023 at 9:03 PM

How we stand up to corporate influence

Whether you’re new to the Patients Over Profits campaign or just want to hear the latest updates, this call is for you! We started the Patients Over Profits pledge because we know that private insurers, pharmaceutical corporations, and for-profit hospitals are spending millions of dollars ea…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
August 18, 2023 at 6:45 PM

In case you missed it

This week, we hosted our first quarterly, nationwide Medicare for All Movement Call to bring health care justice advocates across the country together in a shared space to share updates, tips, and more. In case you missed it, here’s a report-back on what we covered and what next steps you ca…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
August 14, 2023 at 6:43 PM

Wednesday’s national Medicare for All Movement Call

Don’t miss out on this new quarterly call beginning Wednesday, August 16! Friendly reminder: We’re hosting our first quarterly, nationwide Medicare for All Movement Call this Wednesday, August 16 at 5 pm ET/8 pm PT. There’s still time to RSVP and join this opportunity to be in community with …
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
August 11, 2023 at 3:53 PM

VIDEO: State Rep. Anna V. Eskamani is putting patients over profits

More than 110 candidates and elected officials at multiple levels of government have signed onto our Patients Over Profits pledge, and Florida State Representative Anna V. Eskamani is one of them. By taking our pledge, Anna refuses to take campaign contributions of $200 or more from executiv…
  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]
August 9, 2023 at 9:03 PM

In case you missed it

Our first quarterly Medicare for All Movement Call is on August 16. In case you missed it, we are so excited to be launching a new series of quarterly, nationwide Medicare for All Movement Calls! Supporters have been asking us for more opportunities to be in community with fellow health care …
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
August 2, 2023 at 8:53 PM

Our NEW quarterly, nationwide Medicare for All call

We’re launching a quarterly Medicare for All Movement Call starting on August 16. You asked, and we listened. We’ve been hearing more and more of our supporters ask us for more opportunities to be in community with fellow health care justice advocates and learn from one another. That’s why w…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
July 30, 2023 at 5:13 PM

Wish Medicare a happy birthday!

On June 30, 1965, Medicare was signed into law in order to ensure millions of people had the health insurance and care they needed. 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 …
  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]
July 28, 2023 at 8:13 PM

Next steps for Patients Over Profits →

In case you missed it, on Thursday we had a great Patients Over Profits strategy call with supporters from across the country to discuss the next phase of our campaign. Already know you want to get more involved? Sign up for a Special Volunteer Team now! For more background, here are the cal…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
July 25, 2023 at 8:53 PM

This Thursday: Patients Over Profits July Strategy Call

RSVP to attend our July strategy call and build our nationwide movement for People Over Profits! In case you missed it, National Nurses United is hosting a Patients Over Profits July strategy call this Thursday, July 27 at 5:00 pm PT / 8:00 pm ET to discuss our efforts to grow our campaign an…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
July 18, 2023 at 8:04 PM

Patients deserve better than this

No one should have to choose between financial stability and receiving health care so that private corporations can pad their profits. Take a look at this Axios graph: The share of people in the U.S. who skipped medical treatment last year because of costs rose substantially compared to 2020…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
July 11, 2023 at 7:38 PM

We need you on July 27

Campaign contributions from health care corporations are a major obstacle to Medicare for All. Here’s what we’re doing: With your help, 110 elected officials and candidates across the country have taken the Patients Over Profits pledge to reject campaign contributions from the executives, lob…
  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]
July 8, 2023 at 5:43 PM

1.5 million people just lost Medicaid

Since the start of this year, 1.5 million people have lost Medicaid coverage nationwide — and 35% of that population are children. Since the official end of the Covid-19 public health emergency in April of this year, over 1.5 million people have lost Medicaid coverage nationwide — and 35% of …
  Sofia Sepulveda · [email protected]
June 30, 2023 at 8:06 PM

[SHARE] Quick video on Medicare for All

Join us in this fight. Hi there, My name is Sofia and I am an activist, an organizer and a trans woman. I have been a volunteer in the fight to win Medicare for All for nine years. I recently made a video with National Nurses United detailing the importance of Medicare for All for the trans co…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
June 27, 2023 at 8:53 PM

Pharmaceutical companies shouldn't be bringing in billions, while people go without needed medication.

It's simple. Nurses know that we must advocate for the health care LGBTQIA+ patients need, from gender-affirming care to HIV/AIDS treatment. But once again, we find ourselves up against Big Pharma's greed. Take Truvada — one of the main drugs used to prevent and treat HIV infection — for examp…
  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]
June 22, 2023 at 10:04 PM

Will you get involved with our Patients Over Profits campaign?

Will you take a stand against pharma corporations? This is what we mean when we say our health care system is corrupt: According to CNBC, the pharmaceutical industry’s largest lobbying group is suing the Biden administration over Medicare's ability to slash prices for certain drugs under the…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
June 19, 2023 at 3:53 PM

Union nurses are working to fight racial health disparities

Today we celebrate Juneteenth. Today we celebrate Juneteenth. Juneteenth recognizes the day in 1865 when enslaved people living and working in Texas learned from Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and the Union Army that they had been freed from bondage — two months after the Civil War had ended and tw…
  Alex Newell Taylor · [email protected]
June 15, 2023 at 11:04 PM

People > profits

We need Medicare for All. Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell reintroduced Medicare for All in the U.S. House and Senate along with 113 House cosponsors and 14 Senate cosponsors! Since then, we've been building a mass movement of…
  Max Cotterill · [email protected]
June 7, 2023 at 9:25 PM

Action Requested: Tell Congress to Pass Medicare for All

Everyone has the right to health care, period. There's no denying it. The U.S. health care system is broken, dysfunctional, and cruel. According to The New York Times, hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks — many of who remain qualified.1 Beg…
  Nurses' Campaign To Win Medicare For All · [email protected]
June 6, 2023 at 9:33 PM

Celebrating Pride month 🌈

Nurses will always fight for the well-being of all their patients and the broader community. Happy Pride Month! 🌈 We stand in strong solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community and look forward to celebrating Pride Month with our friends, family, and neighbors. This month, and every month, we hono…