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Our current featured video is a short documentary produced by our friends at Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates in Oregon. The video highlights the struggles of regular people with our current privatized health care system, and how we can do better.
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Planning committee for the State-Based Universal Health Care Act (SBUHCA). Development of outreach plans, coordination between different organizations, and recruiting lawmakers.
Planning committee for the State-Based Universal Health Care Act (SBUHCA). Development of outreach plans, coordination between different organizations, and recruiting lawmakers.
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Big news in the fight for Single-Payer / Expanded and Improved Medicare for All!
Sen. Ed Markey (D, MA) has agreed to introduce the Senate companion bill to Rep. Khanna's (D, CA) H.R. 6270 "State-Based Universal Health Care Act" (SBUHCA) as soon as next week. We need to recruit our Senators in the next few days, with a cutoff deadline of Tuesday 2 April, 5pm ET, for original (pre-publication) co-sponsoring Senators to sign on.
One Payer States President, Chuck Pennacchio, PhD
31 December 2023
In 1888, Edward Bellamy's forward-looking novel, Looking Backward 2000-1887, made a sensational impact in an American society reeling from the ravages of the Gilded Age's barbarous Capitalism and Social Darwinism. Bellamy's Boston of the futuristic year 2000 - as conveyed to us by time-traveler Julian West - gives us a utopian vision of universal justice, shared wealth, religious harmony, and global peace. Looking Backward touched millions of Americans and non-Americans, fostered hundreds of Bellamy Societies (most after his 1898 death from tuberculosis), helped launch two magazines, a political party, and a generation of innovative social thinkers such as Jane Addams and John Dewey…
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