Today was a big day for our movement—with Chicago moving closer to becoming the biggest U.S. city to endorse #MedicareForAll!
Our members showed up at City Hall to support. Sorry about the audio—we are indeed a windy city 💨 (hopefully the subtitles help, though).
Medicare for All is surging in popularity among all voters, but it is astronomically popular among Democratic voters—with a 90% approval rating.
Elected officials (or those who hope to be elected) should take note.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Twin Cities health care worker who requested to remain anonymous observed that hospital staff felt terror over the potential effects of the disease.
She said that the current situation in America is worse because there is nowhere safe for people to go.
Keep hope alive ❤️
#SinglePayer #MedicareForAll
Insurers need to be held responsible for the injury they’re causing Americans, or stop denying Americans care
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The game is fixed. Insurers have theirs hands in the entire pot of healthcare
Medicare for All means lower drug prices through greater negotiating power
“Organizers, petition signers, and listening session attendees shared the common concern that UnitedHealth Group should have no role in our education ... given its track record of prioritizing profits over patients.”
- SNaHP leader Miranda Harris Martinez
We need bold political leaders calling for Medicare for All. Democrats need to stop taking insurance campaign contributions.
In a 102-0 vote, every single Illinois Democratic County Chair voted to “support Medicare for All and call on our federal legislators to work toward its immediate enactment.”
This is especially relevant for Illinois Democrats who have NOT cosponsored Medicare for All ... yet 👀
New on Code WACK! 🎙️
Medicare Advantage covers most U.S. seniors, but many face delays, denials, and “paper benefits.” Psychiatrist Dr. Belinda McIntosh explains who’s harmed most and why.
🎧 Listen + reply: should Medicare be privatized?
https://loom.ly/V46tQEY
When it comes to health coverage, we should really pay attention to what works.
There’s no good reason for millions of people in the U.S. to be uninsured or underinsured.
#SinglePayer #MedicareForAll
Corporate profiteering in Medicare is the biggest reason we don’t have Medicare for All today.
Vote to bring Medicare for All to Netroots 2026!
www.healthcare-now.org/netroots
Netroots is the US’s biggest gathering of activists & we need to make sure healthcare justice is a big part of the conversation.
Follow the link, click VOTE FOR THIS SUBMISSION, & create an account to cast your vote!
When the University of Minnesota Medical School offered a course on “value-based care” in partnership with UnitedHealth Group, our UMN student chapter sprang into action.
More than 400 petition signatures and one jam-packed listening session later, the university agreed to shut down the course 💛
“We refer to junk policies as something like a hospital gown. It looks pretty good in the front, but everything’s hanging out in the back.”
- Dr. Claudia Fegan, testifying before the U.S. Senate
When it comes to rising maternal mortality, “we are unlike any other country in the world.”
- Dr. Claudia Fegan, testifying before the U.S. Senate
“To subject working people to that stress [of losing their health insurance]—in addition to everything else that’s going on in the country today—is frightening.”
- Dr. Claudia Fegan, testifying before the U.S. Senate
“No real choice.”
That’s the reality of Medicare Advantage for many seniors.
New Code WACK! episode explores why — and who gets hurt. 🎧
https://loom.ly/zvcAM9M
Thank you to the American Academy of Family Physicians for supporting “the absolute right of patients to access traditional Medicare” and opposing “involuntary assignment to Medicare Advantage or to private, for-profit care management.”
“When we take away health insurance, people die. It’s just that simple.”
- Dr. Claudia Fegan, testifying before the U.S. Senate
“We often say the United States has the best health care in the world. That’s only if you’re wealthy enough to access it.”
- Dr. Claudia Fegan, testifying before the U.S. Senate
Dr. Sydney Doe joined a big crowd in Chicago last night to honor the life of Alex Pretti—part of a nationwide week of action organized by @nationalnurses.bsky.social.
Together, we will place community care back at the center of our national politics.
Should we thank the Trump Administration for not increasing payment rates to evil insurers?
#medicareadvantage
We need health care for all, not militarized immigration enforcement that destabilizes communities across the country.
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