UHCAN – Universal Health Care Action Network
Over 20 years fighting for health care justice: affordable, comprehensive health care for all!
Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign (2010)
Building Unity
among groups working for universal, affordable, comprehensive health care
Cleveland, OH medical students (2015)
Connecting & Supporting
state and local health care justice groups and connecting them to national organizations working for health care justice
Moral Mondays/North Carolina NAACP (2014)
Forging Relationships
between the health care justice movement and other social and economic justice movements
The fight for health care justice is far from over. Many organizations are working hard to implement the Affordable Care Act, counteract efforts to delay or obstruct it, expand Medicaid in their states, defend against threats to undermine Medicaid and Medicare, eliminate disparities in health care, get coverage for all immigrants and move forward wherever possible toward affordable, quality health care for all.
We believe that the success of health care reform in our country hinges on the connections the health care justice movement makes with other justice struggles, so UHCAN also promotes building relationships with other struggles for social and economic justice.
National Calls & Alerts
UHCAN hosts national conference calls for health care justice leaders that cover a broad range of issues and campaigns, both state and national, important to the health care justice movement.
September 2016 UHCAN National Call
Voter protection, #StopTPP, High drug prices, Nurses on strike, Florida – Zika and fight to expand Medicaid, Kentucky HEALTH Plan
read moreAugust 2016 UHCAN National Call
Challenges to hospital and insurance company mega-mergers …. Physicians and medical students speak out on racism …. Report on The Peoples Summit .. How nonprofits can be part of GOTV campaigns
read moreDOJ Says No to Insurance Company Mega-Mergers, but the fight ain’t over by a long shot!
Lots of groups all over the country with assistance from lawyers and key public officials worked together very effectively to win this battle and we deserve to celebrate … What do we do after the celebration?
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Ohio Medicaid waiver rejected by CMS
“We applaud CMS for rejecting a plan that would be harmful to the health of hundreds of thousands of Ohioans who depend on Medicaid for their source of health coverage.”
read moreKentuckians mobilize to preserve historic gains from Medicaid expansion
… if all or some of the components of the waiver are upheld this could create a dangerous precedent for other states.
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Keep Kentucky Covered!
Keep Kentucky Covered! is the battle cry from Kentucky Voices for Health and a broad coalition of groups in the state which are pushing back hard on Gov. Bevin’s plans to use a 1115 waiver request to dramatically restructure – and limit – Kentucky’s very successful Medicaid expansion program.
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