Agendas for recent national UHCAN calls
UHCAN hosts monthly national conference calls for state and national leaders from organizations working for health care justice. UHCAN invites speakers to make brief presentations and provide links to more information relevant to our work around health care issues and campaigns in the states and nationally. We aim to provide a big picture of what’s happening across the country, including in other social and economic justice movements.
National Calls
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
UHCAN’s October 2020 Call
Supreme Court fight is a health care fight … Get out the vote … Defend the election … The fight to expand Medicaid is heating up again
UHCAN’s September 2020 Call
Destruction of the public health infrastructure …. Vaccine – Who can you trust? …. Final BIG Census push! … Get ready to defend election results …
UHCAN’s August 2020 Call
Is it racial justice? Is it the economy? Is it the election? Yes, yes, yes!!
UHCAN’s July 2020 Call
Centering racial justice in the work of the Health Care Justice movement; Vote 2020 – What to watch out for?; Protecting ALL essential workers during the pandemic
UHCAN’s June 2020 National Call
What does the Health Care Justice Movement do in times like this? Be a good ally. Learn together.
UHCAN’s May 2020 National Call
Pandemic exposes, and sharpens, problems in every part of American health care at the same time
UHCAN’s April 2020 National Call
Health care organizing and politics in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic
Alerts
Dates coming up & more
May 14, Poor People’s Campaign launch … June 22-24, Single Payer Strategy Conference … June 27-29, Affordable Medicines Now Conference … Racial Justice Report Card for medical schools published by WC4BL
The 2018 elections are going to be a big challenge for the Health Care Justice movement
… People and groups in all the different parts of our movement are not going to approach 2018 politics from the same place.
What’s Behind the Curtain?
… in this alert, we commend a few articles to you that describe some of what’s going on underneath the headlines, “behind the curtain,” that can help us get a more complete picture of what’s driving the attacks on so many programs and human rights.
Intense week of activism targets TrumpCare! Links & dates
What is clear is that the attacks have already started, as has the resistance to the attacks, on health care access and affordability, on women’s access to reproductive health care, on immigrants’ access, and on Medicaid and Medicare.
Get involved and jump in!
Health care justice forces across the spectrum are organizing multiple initiatives and building broader coalitions to fight back against these attacks, join forces with other justice struggles, and try to push forward an affirmative agenda.
DOJ 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?
Sign-on letter to DOJ re health insurance mega-mergers – Sign by June 23rd!
Up until very recently, there wasn’t much hope that these mergers might be stopped, but that is changing.
Challenging Big Health Insurance Mergers: How-tos & resources
When insurers merge, consumers pay more. Premiums go up significantly, the networks are narrowed, and doctors are forced into assembly-line health care. The number of competitors clearly impacts how much consumers pay. Allowing five industry giants to become three, which is what these two sets of mergers will do, will be a horrible recipe for consumers.”
Health Care Justice activists should support Verizon strikers
Working people at Verizon are on strike. After months of negotiations with Verizon, they are taking a stand to stop the company from sending jobs overseas and to get Verizon to end its continued intimidation of working people at Verizon who are trying to create a better future for themselves and their families.
There are two big reasons why UHCAN urges every part of the Health Care Justice movement to support the Verizon strikers
Quentin Young, MD, 1923 – 2016
Every part of our health care justice movement as well as other justice movements, too, have stories about how Quentin Young impacted our lives and our work. Here are just a few of them …