Health Care
Health Care
It is a moral outrage for a country as wealthy as ours to leave 60 million people with no reliable access to health care and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage. In addition, despite spending nearly twice as much as other developed nations on health care, our system performs poorly, because the private U.S. insurance bureaucracy soaks up as much as one-third of all the money and pharmaceutical interests overburden America by avoiding price competition.
WMM4A launched in May 2017, is a regional network of groups and individuals advocating for a Single Payer health care system in our state and country.
Please join us as we build a strong grassroots movement to advance health care as a human right and to move single-payer legislation forward in the Commonwealth. WMM4A coordinates activity among individuals and groups called “hubs” in Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, and Berkshire Counties. We provide organizing support and resources, and help connect newcomers with hubs in their local area. Check out our blog for updates wmmedicareforall.org
Read the 10 Quesions and Answers at https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/10-questions-about-healthcare-answered by Michael Lighty As the healthcare debate goes on, misinformation continues to spiral out of control on social media threads and in the mainstream media. By now, we’ve all heard the talking points, and it can be incredibly difficult to differentiate the facts from the hype: "Don't other countries with single payer experience really long wait times?" "Why should we expand Medicare? Don't a lot of people have negative experiences with it?" "Why should I pay for someone else's healthcare?" Over the course of recent months, we have received hundreds of questions like these from our subscribers, followers, and other members of our community. These are questions from people who want to learn about the issue and how they can make a difference to move this country forward.
This is a presentation given by Becky Bond at the 2018 Single-Payer Strategy Conference. Becky Bond served as a senior advisor on the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and was an architect of the campaign’s national, volunteer-driven grassroots campaign. Prior to joining the Bernie Sanders campaign, Becky served as political director at CREDO where she was an innovator working at the intersection of organizing, politics, and technology for over a decade. Becky is a cofounder of CREDO SuperPAC, which was named by Mother Jones as one “2012’s Least Horrible Super-PACs” for helping to defeat five sitting Tea Party Republican Congressmen. She lives in San Francisco, California, with the writer, designer, and book artist Emily McVarish. For more information about Becky, Rules for Revolutionaries, and a downloadable, open-source teaching tool to help you implement change in your community, visit www.rulesforrevolutionaries.org.
How Medicare for All would serve our communities. A video of a panel discussion by stake holders in the Medicare for All movement.