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From Feb. 9 to 13, Medicare for All activists from throughout the U.S. will be gathering at 130 barnstorms, sponsored by National Nurses United, to learn the ins and outs of organizing our communities and to persuade additional legislators to sign onto the bill. (Photo: National Nurses United)
The long journey toward transforming our health care system to ensure that all our nation's people get the care they need is entering its next major phase.
In the coming days, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, with dozens of House co-sponsors, is expected to introduce an updated version of a House Medicare for All bill, a significant step toward a real reform that is now favored by up to 70 percent of Americans.
For the first time, following the House turnover in November, the prospects for real action in the House on Medicare for All look promising.
"For the first time... the prospects for real action in the House on Medicare for All look promising."
This historic moment, driven by pressure not from the top, but from the grassroots, reflects a sea change in the political landscape that should put everyone on notice.
Momentum to replace a callous system premised on profiteering off sickness with a humane model based on patient need and health security has been steadily building.
From Feb. 9 to 13, Medicare for All activists from throughout the U.S. will be gathering at 130 barnstorms, sponsored by National Nurses United, to learn the ins and outs of organizing our communities and to persuade additional legislators to sign onto the bill.
At the heart of the new bill will be an unwavering commitment to the bedrock principle that health care is a right for everyone living in the country. Key elements are expected to include:
Some lawmakers, representing their health industry donors, not the broad public interest, are peddling Medicare for some knock-off bills to pre-empt a true Medicare for All system. Let's not be deceived.
As other industrialized nations have proven, we can guarantee care for all our people at lower cost with equal or better health outcomes than what occurs in our broken and dysfunctional, profit focused system today.
The barrier to transformative health care reform is not cost or political expediency, it is political will.
In a week that honored the life and multiple contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's worth recalling his thoughts on the gradualism some continue to favor. "For years now, I have heard the word 'wait'... This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never'... We must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied."
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The long journey toward transforming our health care system to ensure that all our nation's people get the care they need is entering its next major phase.
In the coming days, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, with dozens of House co-sponsors, is expected to introduce an updated version of a House Medicare for All bill, a significant step toward a real reform that is now favored by up to 70 percent of Americans.
For the first time, following the House turnover in November, the prospects for real action in the House on Medicare for All look promising.
"For the first time... the prospects for real action in the House on Medicare for All look promising."
This historic moment, driven by pressure not from the top, but from the grassroots, reflects a sea change in the political landscape that should put everyone on notice.
Momentum to replace a callous system premised on profiteering off sickness with a humane model based on patient need and health security has been steadily building.
From Feb. 9 to 13, Medicare for All activists from throughout the U.S. will be gathering at 130 barnstorms, sponsored by National Nurses United, to learn the ins and outs of organizing our communities and to persuade additional legislators to sign onto the bill.
At the heart of the new bill will be an unwavering commitment to the bedrock principle that health care is a right for everyone living in the country. Key elements are expected to include:
Some lawmakers, representing their health industry donors, not the broad public interest, are peddling Medicare for some knock-off bills to pre-empt a true Medicare for All system. Let's not be deceived.
As other industrialized nations have proven, we can guarantee care for all our people at lower cost with equal or better health outcomes than what occurs in our broken and dysfunctional, profit focused system today.
The barrier to transformative health care reform is not cost or political expediency, it is political will.
In a week that honored the life and multiple contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's worth recalling his thoughts on the gradualism some continue to favor. "For years now, I have heard the word 'wait'... This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never'... We must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied."
The long journey toward transforming our health care system to ensure that all our nation's people get the care they need is entering its next major phase.
In the coming days, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, with dozens of House co-sponsors, is expected to introduce an updated version of a House Medicare for All bill, a significant step toward a real reform that is now favored by up to 70 percent of Americans.
For the first time, following the House turnover in November, the prospects for real action in the House on Medicare for All look promising.
"For the first time... the prospects for real action in the House on Medicare for All look promising."
This historic moment, driven by pressure not from the top, but from the grassroots, reflects a sea change in the political landscape that should put everyone on notice.
Momentum to replace a callous system premised on profiteering off sickness with a humane model based on patient need and health security has been steadily building.
From Feb. 9 to 13, Medicare for All activists from throughout the U.S. will be gathering at 130 barnstorms, sponsored by National Nurses United, to learn the ins and outs of organizing our communities and to persuade additional legislators to sign onto the bill.
At the heart of the new bill will be an unwavering commitment to the bedrock principle that health care is a right for everyone living in the country. Key elements are expected to include:
Some lawmakers, representing their health industry donors, not the broad public interest, are peddling Medicare for some knock-off bills to pre-empt a true Medicare for All system. Let's not be deceived.
As other industrialized nations have proven, we can guarantee care for all our people at lower cost with equal or better health outcomes than what occurs in our broken and dysfunctional, profit focused system today.
The barrier to transformative health care reform is not cost or political expediency, it is political will.
In a week that honored the life and multiple contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's worth recalling his thoughts on the gradualism some continue to favor. "For years now, I have heard the word 'wait'... This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never'... We must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied."