UHCAN – Universal Health Care Action Network
Over 25 years fighting for health care justice: affordable, comprehensive health care for all!
Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign
Building Unity
among groups working for universal, affordable, comprehensive health care
Cleveland, OH medical students
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
Forging Relationships
between the health care justice movement and other social and economic justice movements
In this new period, many new and diverse people and groups are joining the struggle for health care justice. Health justice is part of something bigger – America wrestling with what kind of country we are going to be. Health care justice advocates come to every health care issue from many different perspectives. How to get to universal health care …standing up to insurance companies and Big Pharma … the importance of addressing racial disparities in medicine … the fight for Medicaid expansion and against cuts. There are many different perspectives and priorities within our movement.
The success of health care reform in our country hinges on the connections the health care justice movement makes with other justice struggles. Therefore, UHCAN promotes building relationships with other movements and 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.
UHCAN’s August 2019 Call
Gun violence is a political and public health issue .. Taking on powerful mega-hospital corporations … The fight over high drug prices in Congress … Making the case for business for Medicare for All
Blog: A few themes from July 2019 national call
Growing physician opposition to extreme anti-abortion laws … Words matter in the Medicare for All fight
UHCAN’s July 2019 Call
Things heating up in House of Medicine … Drug cost fight is not going away … Medicare for All is already an election issue …The hits keep coming – the current generation of attacks on American health care
News and Links
New coalition takes on Big Pharma
A new coalition was launched this month – Lower Drug Prices Now
“Don’t Touch My Medicare!” Putting the national conversation about health care in context …
Polls repeatedly show that Medicare is one of the most popular domestic programs … Medicare’s popularity, however, comes with almost no understanding of what the program is and how it works.
For 2020 Dem Hopefuls, ‘Medicare-For-All’ Is A Defining Issue, However They Define It
“Medicare-for-all’s popularity — even as a concept — shows something significant. There is a consensus that the current system needs to fundamentally transform … There’s a commitment to do that. Then we have to argue out the details.”