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.
Blog: A few themes from June 2019 UHCAN call
UHCAN’s monthly call in June opened with a focus on democracy. Our call started with this theme because UHCAN believes that, without winning the democracy battle, Americans will never win health care justice. 2020 Census There are grave concerns that adding a...
read moreUHCAN’s June National Call
We need more democracy to get Health Care Justice! … Reproductive rights and women’s health care …. Medicare for All fight this summer … Taking on Pharma: How to tell advances from detours? … Social Security … Keeping Universal Health Care on the table
read moreUHCAN’s May National Call
The future of reproductive rights …. Medicare for All local campaigns …. DOJ rule on public charge and depotation … Medicaid-buy-in and public option bills in states … Counterattacks on Medicaid expansion
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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.”
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What We Know So Far About the Medicare for All Act of 2019
With H.R. 676 no longer and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.) to soon unveil a revised single-payer bill, here’s our informed perspective on why the new version is shaping up to be a much stronger and more detailed piece of legislation
read moreGovernors Set the Agenda for Health Care
States have always been at the forefront of health care innovation … notable this year is the bold tone many new governors are taking …
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