By Carmen Comsti Back in December of 2019 I was honored to be appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to the newly created Healthy California for All Commission. …

Medicare for All is a transformative proposal that will dramatically improve the lives of all people in the US. It is going to take a huge movement to win such a prize. Nurses are leaders in this movement because we understand what is at stake: how much we have to…

Ever since we found out that CVS has been funding anti-Medicare for All lobbyists we have been on their case. We’ve challenged them on social media, and targeted their stores again and again. Most recently we have been challenging them in black and white, on the pages of our local…

We wanted to take the time to talk more in depth about what happened with AB 1400 and how we move forward together as a movement. As you may have heard, Monday, January 31st was the deadline for AB 1400, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), to…

From Honolulu to Houston, people have been taking on the fourth biggest corporation in the country, demanding that they stop blocking Medicare for All. Hundreds of nurses and supporters have targeted nearly 400 CVS stores from coast to coast. Our message is clear: CVS must stop putting profits over patients…

A few weeks ago in late October, California Assemblymember Ash Kalra embarked on what he dubbed a “CalCare Policy Tour” to Canada, New York, and Washington D.C. …

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All — Fall Organizing Plan As the delta variant spreads across the United States, hospitals are once again faced with a rising number of Covid-19 patients. Total daily cases are back on the rise. Only 0.3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses have been…

Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses have long understood the need for single-payer, guaranteed health care for all. Nurses know all too well the deep failings of our fragmented, profit-driven health care system, and California is no exception. 3.2 million Californians have no health insurance at all. Over a third…

The dire and urgent need for Medicare for All in the US is more clear now than ever before. Over a year into the pandemic, we have seen just how broken our health care system is at a time when we need it to be working best. For nurses, the…