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: Agendas and Blog
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 January 2021 Call
Top fights for 2021
UHCAN’s December 2020 National Call
Top fights right now … The pandemic, the vaccine, the Georgia election; To fights heading into 2021 … Fighting systemic racism, housing crisis, labor rights, immigrant rights
UHCAN’s November 2020 National Call
First arenas of battle … The Pandimic … Undoing the damage to the administrative state .. Drug wars – COVID vaccine and therapeutics
News and Links
GAO report shows that growing income inequality has deadly consequences for poor Americans
The expanding gap between rich and poor … is helping the rich lead longer lives, while cutting short the lives of those who are struggling …
Medicare-for-All? Public Option? What Does It All Mean for Low-Income Individuals?
What do these proposals mean for the 65 million low-income individuals – essentially 1 in 5 – that receive their insurance through Medicaid?
New coalition takes on Big Pharma
A new coalition was launched this month – Lower Drug Prices Now