Medicare for All
93 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago -Benjamin Day and Gillian Mason of Healthcare-NOW break down everything you need to know about the social movement to make healthcare a right in the United States. Medicare for All!
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The View from Capitol Hill: A Very Special Conference Episode
June 17, 2024 03:41 - 66.6 MBIt's the most wonderful time of the year! For activists in the movement to make Medicare for All a reality, this is the week when we gather to plot, scheme, and kvetch. Welcome to the 2024 Annual Medicare for All Strategy Conference, “Healthcare Beyond the Ballot Box,” organized by Healthcare NOW! For those of you who are attending the conference right now, you are getting a sneak preview of our Very Special Conference Episode! Since our theme this year is about what happens to Medicare for ...
Dude, Where’s My Union Health Plan?
May 06, 2024 04:59 - 42 minutes - 49 MBWe are in the middle of a resurgence of organized labor in the US. From Amazon workers to auto workers and grad students to baristas at Starbucks, everyone is getting in on the action! One of the big reasons workers are so hot to get that union card is because of… you guessed it, healthcare! Today we’re going to be talking union healthcare plans – how they work and how workers have managed to use collective bargaining to resist the national erosion of healthcare access. Most importantly, we’r...
Mental Health & For-Profit Insurance: A Deadly Combo
April 07, 2024 22:43 - 58 minutes - 135 MBThe U.S. is wrestling with a massive mental health crisis - impacting young people in particular. Half of young adults and one-third of all adults report that they always feel anxious or have often felt anxiety in the past year. One-third of respondents could not get the mental health services they needed. Why? 80% say they couldn’t afford the cost and more than 60% said that shame and stigma kept them away. The shortage of mental health providers also means that care can be very hard to find...
Cyberattacks, Messaging Wars, and the Capitalist Hellscape
April 01, 2024 19:36 - 41 minutes - 48.2 MBWe hear it over and over again – the private sector just does it better. Whether we’re talking education or healthcare or our criminal justice system, the default Republican (and sometimes Democratic) talking point is that competition in the marketplace allows the best ideas and best people (Elon Musk, lookin at you) to rise to the top and lead us to a utopian future (sponsored by Meta). But then something wild happens like the cyberattack on UnitedHealthcare, which is causing massive fallo...
The Battle of the Letters: Medicare Advantage
March 10, 2024 23:59 - 42 minutes - 96.5 MBOccasional fistfights aside, most of our legislators make the choice to use their words when they’re angry, and a lot of those words go into public letters they write to presidents, officials, and even each other. Despite the fact that no one else in this country has written or read a letter in decades, the public comment letter is still popular with politicians, who have elevated this obscure literary genre to a competitive sport, using these letters to demonstrate their power, build allianc...
Hospital Merger Mania!
February 20, 2024 16:43 - 5 MBHere at the Medicare for All Podcast, we love calling out all the bad actors in our healthcare system – greedy insurance companies, soul-less CEOs in Big Pharma,profit-hungry “non-profit hospitals”, and all our favorite villains. Mostly, we look at the ways those predators target sick people and poor people for exploitation, but today we’re looking at what happens when they start fighting each other for a bigger piece of the pie? Specifically, we’re going to explore the world of hospital cons...
Racial Equity in Healthcare
January 22, 2024 02:24 - 52 minutes - 121 MBJust this Monday, we celebrated Martin Luther King Day, a tribute to one of the great leaders of the movement for racial justice – but something that often gets forgotten in the flurry of MLK quotes that become memes this time of year is that equity in healthcare was a crucial part of King’s vision. Throughout his career in activism, he often stated his conviction that “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhuman.” Sadly, over 50 years after his de...
Mailbag Episode: Super Fans Edition!
December 11, 2023 01:21 - 50 minutes - 48.5 MBIt’s that time again folks… time for a Mailbag Episode! We reached out to our whole audience and all our supporters to find the pressing questions on everyone’s mind. Or at least we would have if Gillian hadn’t been too busy eating turkey to email our list. So instead, Gillian reached out personally to some of our superfans (anyone in her contact list who had previously admitted to listening to the show once) to find out what they wanted to hear from us. And here we are, with questions about ...
What even *is* health insurance?
November 21, 2023 06:16 - 48 minutes - 112 MBOpen enrollment. Deductible. Coinsurance. HMO. Indemnity plan. If you’re listening this far, you probably have a migraine already. Understanding the language of the health insurance industry, let alone selecting a health insurance plan, can be confusing, frustrating, and disheartening. But never fear - we are here to give you a crash course on everything you need to know about your insurance plan. No need to scroll through Healthcare.gov’s Health Insurance glossary and risk throwing yourself ...
How the Other Half Lives: Concierge Care
October 27, 2023 02:04 - 40 minutes - 38.5 MBIf you’ve ever had an experience with the American healthcare system, you’ve probably walked away thinking, “Why can’t we have nice things? Or even basic human things??” We get stuck on gurneys sitting in ER hallways, waiting hours for care; we skip other basic needs like food and housing to pay for the healthcare we can’t skip; or we wait for months for preauthorizations from our health insurance and referrals from our doctors. Of course, for the super rich you don’t have to endure any of th...
The Price is Right (for Prescription Drugs)!
October 01, 2023 01:22 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBJust over a month ago we lost Bob Barker, the man who taught us all about the brutal nature of capitalism one pricing game at a time. Now, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal government is going to be playing a role in determining the prices for some of our favorite products. No, we’re not talking about cars or family vacations to the Bahamas – we’re talking about the prescription drugs that keep us alive! As the Biden Administration enters its own Showcase Showdown with Big Ph...
Transgender Healthcare Under Attack
August 28, 2023 18:48 - 5 MBWith all the threats facing our country – climate change, a predatory economy, corporations buying our elections, and the overt move towards fascism among the far right – you would think that politicians would be laser-focused on the existential crises descending upon us. But instead, politicians in the US are devoting a considerable amount of their energy these days to an all-out assault on the rights of transgender people. Although the war on trans people has taken many forms, from bathroom...
Not-So-Nice Ratio
August 13, 2023 01:37 - 46 minutes - 106 MBAlmost every patient in America has had a frustrating experience in a hospital setting where we feel like we’re on a medical conveyor belt that moves WAY too slowly. We sit for too long in a waiting room; then our nurses or doctors speak with us very briefly; we might feel more like we’re filling out an online survey than we’re being listened to; then we might have more waiting; and then we’re pushed onto the next specialist or appointment too quickly. Of course some patients experience FAR w...
The Office
July 14, 2023 19:38 - 50 minutes - 47.2 MBToday we bring you behind the scenes into our office at Healthcare NOW. Just like the TV show The Office, we have our hijinks and wacky characters, including some very smart interns! They have prepped some of their burning questions for this episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnG1C8DOZVY First, from Intern Noah from Boston College: In your opinion, what is the most effective way to organize/advocate for Medicare for All? Talk to one person, then another person, and then another! ...
Healthcare Goes to Hollywood
July 01, 2023 21:47 - 59 minutes - 135 MBIt’s summer, the sun is blazing, and we only have one thing on our minds - the upcoming thirtieth anniversary of the high-octane, expertly paced thriller The Fugitive, originally released August 6, 1993 starring Harrison Ford. Oh, and Medicare for All. We’re always thinking about Medicare for All. Now that we mention it, isn’t it funny how if we had a single-payer healthcare system, The Fugitive wouldn’t exist? In a single-payer system, there would have been no nefarious pharmaceutical execut...
But…there will be wait times!
June 16, 2023 19:32 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBAs Tom Petty taught us all in the 1980s, Waiting is the Hardest Part. That’s even more true when you’re waiting to see a doctor for a problem that needs attention. Anyone who has ever tried to secure a doctor’s appointment in this country knows that a) it’s going to be harder than scoring Taylor Swift tickets and b) you are going to face serious delays before you get your care. In this episode, we’re getting into the nitty gritty of wait times in the U.S. – how bad are they, how do we compare...
The Train Has Left the Station
June 04, 2023 01:27 - 44 minutes - 101 MBUsually we spend our time on this podcast talking about our for-profit healthcare system and why we need to make healthcare a public good, but in this episode we’re taking a detour into another privatized American system that should be public: our railroads! Just like in US healthcare, private companies are falling asleep at the switch on managing our railroads, and just like in the healthcare system, the failure of big corporations is costing money and lives. Today, we’re joined by Michael...
American Hospitals – Healthcare Villains?
May 19, 2023 22:33 - 37 minutes - 35.4 MBVirtually all Americans know that our healthcare system is broken and that it’s working against us. But who is the villain in this story? Who is responsible for maintaining this healthcare system, and using it to profit off of patients? If we had to round up the usual suspects in a lineup, we’d probably end up with health insurance companies and big pharma. But what about hospitals? Many people like the nurses and doctors who care for them, and associate hospitals with those care-givers. But ...
Private Equity’s Path of Destruction in Health Care
May 01, 2023 22:30 - 49 minutes - 113 MBIf you missed our annual Single Payer Strategy Conference, it's your lucky day. Today we share a conference presentation all about the impact of Private Equity on healthcare (spoiler alert: it's not good.) Our guests are Eagan Kemp, Health Care Policy Advocate at Public Citizen; Rachel Madley, Health Policy Advisor to Medicare for All Act chief author Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA 7); and Robert Seifert, Senior Fellow at Americans for Financial Reform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
50 Shades of “No”: How to Respond to Your Legislator’s Excuses and Evasions
April 10, 2023 18:58 - 5 MBWhen kids turn two or three years old, they learn to tell what is called a “primary lie,” which is lying without much sophistication or awareness of how the listener will perceive the lie (hint: you completely failed to fool your parents). But when we turn four, we learn to tell “secondary lies,” which take into account the listener’s likely reaction, and are more plausible. When we turn seven or eight we learn to tell “tertiary lies,” where we also make sure our lie is consistent with surrou...
Would You Rather: the Healthcare Edition
March 24, 2023 22:11 - 5 MBBack in 2008, the TV show Breaking Bad asked a question that is still on a lot of Americans’ minds: How far would you go to pay for medical care? In Breaking Bad, the main character ends up building a meth empire to pay for his cancer treatment, which is a solution we don’t necessarily endorse, but you do what you have to do. Today we’re going to be talking about real life (slightly less dramatic) examples of the lengths folks are forced to go to these days to navigate our for-profit health...
10 Years of M4A
March 16, 2023 18:51 - 5 MB2013 was a big year -- we had just survived 2012 (the year the Mayans thought the world was going to end), we were all doing the Harlem Shake on Vine, and -- most importantly -- our regular co-host Ben Day became the Executive Director of Healthcare NOW, the nation's leading Medicare for All advocacy organization. In this episode, Gillian interviews Ben about the past decade in the movement for healthcare justice, revisiting the highs, the lows, and the weird in-between shit! Like a lot of f...
This Little Pandemic Went to Market
February 28, 2023 15:39 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBStarting on May 11, President Biden is ENDING the emergency COVID-19 regulations that have been in place since the start of the pandemic in January 2020. These regulations created (almost) a Medicare for All-type public funding system for vaccines, testing, and COVID-related care. While the pandemic itself is still raging, the end of the official Public Health Emergency (PHE) means that access to COVID prevention and care will become like any other form of care in the U.S.: whatever you can g...
Give Me Healthcare or Give Me Debt!
February 21, 2023 20:11 - 35 minutes - 82 MBOur guest today is Rebecca Wood. Rebecca lived all over Virginia before her relocation to Massachusetts. Rebecca worked with many organizations and offices on Capitol Hill. Her healthcare work includes rallies, protests, press conferences, and conventions. Most notable, she told her and daughter Charlie’s story at the introduction of Senator Sanders’ Medicare For All Act of 2017 and testified before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Pathways to Universal Coverage in June 2019 (Reb...
Digital Healthcare Dystopia
February 03, 2023 15:12 - 29 minutes - 28.2 MBLike many of our episodes, this topic drives our hosts to use some salty language. Use your best judgment if you're listening near someone with tender ears. Hike up your trousers and throw on some long socks. We’re getting into the weeds on this one. Ben and Gillian discuss the digitization of our healthcare system and its far-reaching impacts on data privacy and patient health outcomes. We trace the rise of Electronic Health Record (EHR) management systems and the corresponding $13-billion...
Bringing the Fight to 2023
January 19, 2023 05:56 - 31 minutes - 72.9 MBIt’s a new year, which means everyone is coming out of the woodwork to make predictions about what’s in store for 2023. In this episode, we’re going to be making reckless, unverifiable claims about the future of the movement for healthcare justice, the public health crisis in this country, the political landscape, and yes – how an impending alien invasion might impact our fight for Medicare for All! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbJS9RI_Oew Show Notes Gillian researched some of the predi...
Network So Small!
December 18, 2022 06:02 - 47 minutes - 45.5 MBListeners, how many times has this happened to you? You find a great doctor, you make an appointment, and you think everything is fine… until you get the dreaded call from the insurance company that your sweet new doc is “Out of Network.” Well, you aren’t alone – just in the past few months, limited provider networks have been making news, as Johns Hopkins, one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country, is leaving the CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield network, which could impact nearly ...
Midterms: Chicken Soup for the Electoral Soul
November 25, 2022 04:27 - 49 minutes - 113 MBThe 2022 midterm elections are MOSTLY in the books - thank again Georgia, for the endless run-offs that keep on giving, every two years it seems like. You’ve heard the national narrative: Democrats did surprisingly well, given how parties in power usually take big losses during the mid-terms, and particularly when Biden has such low approval numbers. Today we'll talk about how healthcare did on Election Day, and how the fight over Medicare for All within the Democratic Party affected those ...
In Sickness and in Health Insurance
November 11, 2022 06:19 - 32 minutes - 31.5 MBToday we're talking about the relationship between taking your vows and taking your medicine. In 2020, more than a quarter of folks who got married said they took the plunge because one of the partners involved needed health insurance, and it seems like some couples are staying together for the insurance as well. In this episode we’ll break down how our healthcare system is set up to get us paired up and how Medicare for All could save you a trip down the aisle. https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Howdy Y’all, it’s the TEXAS EPISODE
October 31, 2022 02:14 - 48 minutes - 110 MBEverything is bigger in Texas, including medical bills and the uninsured population. The Lone Star state has the second-largest population in the country, and is among the fastest-growing as well, but all those people are stuck with THE worst healthcare system and very poor health outcomes as well. The uninsured rate is more than twice the national average. Our guest today is Sofia Sepulveda, an activist based in San Antonio, Texas, organizing for healthcare justice, environmental justice, ...
More like Medicare Disadvantage, AMIRITE?
October 14, 2022 05:08 - 45 minutes - 38.8 MBToday we’re tackling Medicare Advantage, which is the option Medicare enrollees have to use a private insurance company to administer their Medicare benefits instead of the traditional public Medicare program. Almost HALF of all Medicare beneficiaries are now enrolled in Advantage plans, which represents a historic level of privatization of the almost 60-year program. Just this weekend, the New York Times published a blockbuster front-page report on everything that is wrong about Advantage ...
Alexa, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
October 02, 2022 21:03 - 30 minutes - 69.5 MBIn this episode, we unpack Amazon’s efforts to “disrupt U.S. healthcare” (apologies for the new age business lingo!). And after their spectacular failure to disrupt anything, we talk about Amazon’s pivot from “disrupting” the healthcare industry to joining it. About a month ago, Amazon purchased One Medical, an in-person and virtual subscription-based healthcare service (the so-called “Netflix of healthcare”). What does Amazon’s move into the healthcare industry mean for patients, and how cou...
Peticare for All!
September 15, 2022 05:20 - 30 minutes - 29.8 MBAny regular listeners of the podcast won’t be surprised to hear that Gen Xers and Millennials are going into debt for healthcare… but what if we told you that this time it’s for their pets! More Americans are spending more money on healthcare for their beloved pets, which means insurance companies are getting in on the action and cashing in! Today we’ll be digging into the wild world of pet insurance and what Peticare for All could mean for our four-legged friends (and zero-legged friends, an...
Political Malpractice & the Rise of Dr. Oz
September 02, 2022 05:09 - 5 MBToday we’re checking in on the ongoing Pennsylvania Senate race, where Medicare for All–along with crudites, poop tweets, hydroxychloroquine, and Turkish nationalism–has become a hot-button issue. This race is beyond interesting, shading into the bizarre! A lot is at stake, since control over the Senate is going to be hotly contested this midterm election, and this is the most likely seat to flip from Republican to Democrat. https://youtu.be/nRyxrm0I95c Show Notes The Democratic candidate...
The Hope Reduction Act
August 20, 2022 23:03 - 33 minutes - 29.9 MBBen discusses the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which was signed into law by President Biden this past week! In last-minute negotiations between Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin, the Senate finally - after comical failures over and over this past year - passed a VERY scaled-down version of the Build Back Better bill. The “IRA” bill - clearly they intensively focus-grouped that title - is overwhelmingly a package of environmental policies, but does include some healthcare provisions for Med...
My Big Fat American Healthcare System
July 23, 2022 06:17 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBNoted public health expert Lizzo teaches us that “thick thighs save lives,” but for many of us, being fat is killing us – and not for the reasons you might expect. Today we’re talking about our healthcare system’s impact on fat folks AND how misconceptions about fat folks impact our healthcare policy! Recent studies have shown us two things: A) that weight isn’t the major driver of health that the medical industry has believed it was for a very long time, and B) that treating weight like th...
SiCKO: the 15 Year Reunion
July 08, 2022 04:29 - 55 minutes - 127 MBIn spring of 2007, Michael Moore released a blockbuster documentary showing the extraordinary damage the U.S. healthcare system inflicts upon ordinary Americans. Story by story, SiCKO pulled back the veil of how ordinary illness and injury, when paired with deadly healthcare profiteering, leads to suffering, financial ruin, and even death. 15 years later, together with our friends at Progressive Democrats of America, we are bringing together the patients featured in SiCKO, whose extraordinar...
Seniors for Sale!
June 23, 2022 19:25 - 42 minutes - 97.7 MBhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd21JObzQeI Show Notes Today we venture into the bizarro world of Medicare (the program serving those 65 and older as well as some people with disabilities) to explore the largest Medicare rate hike in history. Our guest Alex Lawson, the Executive Director of Social Security Works, will help explain what's happening. Social Security Works is the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, which represents over 50 million Americans. SSW figh...
Livin’ On a Prayer: Health Care Sharing Ministries
June 10, 2022 00:26 - 33 minutes - 31.5 MBToday we look at the somehow-legal world of healthcare sharing ministries, a form of health coverage where like-minded religious folks share health care costs. After a series of lawsuits and scandals, these companies are in the news again recently. We’ll look at what HCSMs are, how they have flourished as insurance costs rise, and the potential risks they pose to the unsuspecting consumer. Then we’ll turn the page to talk about how communities of faith are playing a key role in winning a just...
Keep Your Hands Off Our Fucking Bodies: Why Reproductive Justice Must Be Part of Medicare for All
May 26, 2022 01:40 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBThere's some adult language in this episode, so might not be appropriate for our youngest M4A advocates. The recent leak of what is likely to be the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has us enraged about the future of abortion and healthcare in America. Spoiler: We aren’t loving the fact that five fucking reactionary clowns can take away the bodily autonomy of half the population of the US. Today, we’re making the case for why abortion access and - more broadly, reproductive ...
Gen Z Healthcare is Trash…No Cap!
May 12, 2022 04:41 - 39 minutes - 90.6 MBDid you recently turn 26? Get kicked off your parents’ insurance? Have you been scrolling through your state’s healthcare exchange website, wondering if it would just be cheaper to crawl into a hole and die? Have we got the episode for you! We’re sitting down today with Lisa Giordano, Executive Director of the Association of Young Americans (AYA), to discuss the often overlooked healthcare crisis faced by young American workers. AYA is a membership-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization...
Blowing Up the Ambulance Industry
April 28, 2022 19:40 - 44 minutes - 39.6 MBToday we’re taking about ambulances and the ambulance industry! We know this topic is important because Michael Bay recently released an action movie called… “Ambulance.” This is the director who brings you about 90% of big-budget Hollywood films where car chases happen and lots of shit blows up. And sometimes robots from outer-space. Like a lot of our healthcare system, the ambulance industry has become increasingly privatized, and taken over by for-profit equity firms. This has a dramatic i...
United We SCAM
April 15, 2022 05:01 - 30 minutes - 70 MB26.5 million Americans are insured by UnitedHealth Group, making it the largest insurance company in the U.S. with a whopping 14.4% market share and $287 billion in revenue last year - that’s more than the total income of most countries in Europe! In this episode, we take on this insurance behemoth and how it has systematically rigged our economy and our government - in addition to providing Americans with overpriced, inadequate health coverage. Our guest is Wendell Potter, the former Vice P...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Medicare For All with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
April 01, 2022 01:36 - 26 minutes - 20.9 MBToday Ben interviews Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, physician, epidemiologist, professor, former executive director of the Detroit Health Department, and candidate for Governor of Michigan. Dr. El-Sayed is also the author of several books and publications, most recently Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide. Show Notes Dr. El-Sayed discusses how his desire to improve disparities in health led him to become a physician, only to learn that the system he practiced in was part of the problem. The fact that...
Mailbag Episode! Spilling the Tea with Ben and Gillian
March 21, 2022 05:40 - 51 minutes - 118 MBMailbag Episode! Spilling the Tea with Ben and Gillian This week Ben and Gillian take questions from YOU, our listeners, and Medicare for All activists around the country. We got some really great questions submitted over the past week, and some very saucy questions as well - well done listeners! Show Notes Question from Susan Udin in NY: "I was in the hospital a few weeks ago for 2 days. I went due to symptoms of stroke (aphasia) on instructions of my doctor's office. When I got home, I...
The War on Veterans’ Healthcare
March 03, 2022 01:49 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MBWe’re witnessing the largest war in Europe since World War II, as Russia invades Ukraine. At the moment, U.S. troops are not directly involved in the conflict, but it has got us thinking about the healthcare that military personnel receive, particularly after they’re discharged and rejoin civilian life. There is no one better to talk with about veterans’ healthcare than our guest Suzanne Gordon. Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written for The New York Times,...
Billed At Birth: Maternal Healthcare
February 16, 2022 19:44 - 53 minutes - 124 MBThis Valentine's Day, we're showing some love for moms and other folks who have given birth by talking about one of the most important but least-discussed aspects of our current healthcare system: maternal healthcare. We’ll be sharing your stories about the good, the bad, and the ridiculously expensive, celebrating resilience, and getting fired up to change what it looks like to have a baby in this country! Since neither Ben nor Gillian have given birth, we brought in a Momspert: our guest is...
Shark Tank for Your Health
February 04, 2022 03:45 - 27 minutes - 22 MBHeads up, there's a lot of swears in this one. Well-justified swears, we think, but if you have younger listeners nearby, you might want to put on your headphones. Just this past week, billionaire Mark Cuban launched a new healthcare service called - because he’s a megalomaniac - the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. The company claims to sell prescription drugs at more affordable prices. We claim that Mark Cuban is a full-on asshole. (Told you there'd be swears.) The site touts that all ...
Keep Your Corporate Hands Off Our Medicare!
January 21, 2022 22:57 - 40 minutes - 93.5 MB“Direct contracting" is the latest in a long line of insidious tactics pushing Medicare towards privatization. Today we’re chatting with Dr. Claire Cohen, MD from Physicians for a National Health Program about direct contracting entities: what they are, how they threaten beneficiaries of traditional Medicare, and what is being done to stop them. Show Notes Dr. Claire Cohen is an African American child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been practicing in Pittsburgh since 1984. She grew up ...
Anatomy of an Organizing Victory, with National Nurses United
December 23, 2021 17:37 - 42 minutes - 35.9 MBToday we’re celebrating a win! We’re talking to organizers and leaders at National Nurses United (NNU),who recently ran a very impactful campaign to get Representative John Garamendi from California to commit to being a co-sponsor for the Medicare for All bill in Congress. Representative Garamendi supported previous versions of Medicare for All legislation, but had not signed on since Representative Pramila Jayapal became the lead sponsor and rewrote the bill in 2019. After a long campaign us...