One Payer States - In It To Win It - #GivingTuesday
This #GivingTuesday please give generously to support our strategic
vision and work that is grounded in a deep understanding of
U.S. history, politics, media, messaging, coalition-building, inside-
outside coordination, horizontal and vertical organizing, constitutional
state-national reform dynamics -- and, most importantly, lived
experience. Okay, so what. Like my dad used to say: "The proof of
the pudding is in the eating." In other words, show me the results of
your strategic thinking, planning and execution -- not some half-
baked theory that looks and sounds good.
Exactly. That's why, similar to the successful labor organizing drives I co-
organized and led at the University of Colorado at Boulder (graduate
students) in the early 1990s, at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown,
PA (junior faculty), in the late 1990s/early 2000s, and at the University of
the Arts in Philadelphia (all faculty) from 2018-2020, the One Payer
States campaign to pass Rep. Ro Khanna's H.R. 6270: "State-Based
Universal Health Care Act" (SBUHCA) in the 2025-2026 Congress has
its doubters, nay-sayers, and even detractors, most notably among
those who should be with us -- those who support the same social
justice mission -- whether it's workplace justice or healthcare justice --
but perhaps lack the radical vision, strategic planning, and/or lived
experience. I am fortunate for having gone through this process several
times (though at a high personal cost), proving again and again that
which anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, captured on a grander
scale, and with supreme understatement: "It always seems impossible
until it's done."
Yes, it always seems impossible until it's done. Meanwhile, One Payer
States is doing it. We are on pace for passage of SBUHCA in the next
two-to-three (2-3) years. Pudding-proof-wise, we have already garnered
twenty-seven (27) co-sponsors among Democrats left, center, and right,
with several -- yes, several! -- Republican members expressing an active
interest in a bill designed to enable individual and collective states to
form truly universal healthcare systems, through SBUHCA's federal
financing and legal "super-waivers."
At One Payer States, we have built more support with far more
growth potential, over the last two months, than in any
previous 2-year Congress. By far. And at a time of unfolding
congressional, domestic, and international crises. (Speaker fight, Israel-
Gaza, Maine, budget, Trumpism/Fascism.) Why? In short, our success
is predictable -- though not inevitable -- that is, if you believe that "past
is prologue" -- that history provides the context for the present, and that
radical visioning, comprehensive strategy, and winning experiences
are all important.
Finally, while the formula for success is embedded in our 16-point
strategy -- a strategy that begins with the radical vision of having
accomplished the healthcare justice at the center of our
mission -- just as important is the secret sauce. Shh! Here it
comes...
It's YOU. If you can believe in, and support, a vision,
mission, and strategy that will get us to national Universal,
Simple, Affordable (USA) healthcare through state innovation
and modeling in the next few years, please donate and/or
volunteer today. Grazie mille!
Donate: https://onepayerstates.org/donate
Get involved: https://onepayerstates.org/get-involved
SBUHCA bill: https://congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6270
In it to win it, yours in radical hospitality, radical hope, and radical solidarity,
Chuck
Chuck Pennacchio, PhD
President, One Payer States (.org)
215 828 5055 (text is best)
1425 Monroe St., NW
Washington, DC 20010
