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Organizations advocating for single payer, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All in Western Washington
*Health Care for All -WA
*Progressive Democrats of America
*Health Care is a Human Right - WA
*United for National HealthCare - Bellingham
*Socialist Alternative
*Washington Community Action Network
*Backbone Campaign
*Whole Washington
Dr. Gerald Friedman's economic analysis of how a state single plan would affect our state

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Since 1987 Physicians for a National Health Program has advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. A large part of our work involves mobilizing physicians, other health care workers, and the general public to actively advocate for enactment of a national, comprehensive, high quality, non-profit, publicly-funded health care system serving all residents of the United States.
Dr. Bulger, MD, Chief of Surgery at Harborview Medical Center & past Chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, gave the presentation and led the discussion on firearm injury. Covered were mental health & firearms, differences in state and federal regulations, the watered down "bipartisan" Congressional bill being talked about, how underserved and minority communities are inequitably affected, what strategies Seattle has to reach out to affected communities, and more.
Dr. Joseph Cuschieri MD, joined in. He left HMC in 2021 to become Chief of Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital where he sees lots of trauma.
Watch the video here
You can help our coalition by signing on to the letters to Pres. Biden and our Congressional delegation asking the end to the ACO-REACH entities and all methods of privatizing Medicare. PSARA will be sending these each month to include new organizational and individual signers. The next batch will go out June 1st, followed by July 1st. Please forward these lists to your organizations and friends.
Click HERE to sign the letter to Biden — Don’t Privatize Medicare
Click HERE to sign the letter to Washington’s Congressional Delegation
Call-in scripts for the White House and Congress
Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 between 9:00am and 5:00pm Eastern, Monday through Friday
Call President Biden at (202) 456-1111 between 11:00am and 3:00pm Eastern, Tuesdays through Thursdays
One-page handout: Direct Contracting and REACH, Handing Traditional Medicare to Wall Street
Share your Medicare story: See our one-page handout for tips, and use THIS FORM to share your story
Post to social media using the hashtag #StopREACH — please link to any or all of our materials!
ProtectMedicare.net website - tons of info & updated regularly
June 29th 4pm - PSARA Webinar on ACO-REACH and the privatization threat to traditional Medicare. PNHP's National Board member Dr. Ed Weisbart will give the presentation. Reserve here
July 20th, 7pm - PNHPWA July Monthly Meeting - topic TBD - Register
May 23 - PNHP webinar kickoff of our expanded national "Turning up the Heat on Direct Contracting and Reach Campaign" - Physicians, Seniors & Reps Jayapal, Pocan, Porter, Schakowsky will speak - Watch Video
June 16th - WA Universal Health Care Commission - video here soon
This meeting was particularly timely as PNHP, PSARA, and other organizations in our state are organizing to fight the complete privatization of Medicare through the DCE/ACO-REACH models that have recently come to light.
We talked about how privatization has infiltrated all aspects of the "commons" we are supposed to share, is magnifying inequalities/inequities, & working against the soldarity that would help bind our nation together in these precarious times. 
We talked about how privatization has infiltrated all aspects of the "commons" we are supposed to share, is magnifying inequalities/inequities, & working against the soldarity that would help bind our nation together in these precarious times.
Watch the meeting video
 
Dr. Weisbart is on the Board of Physicians for a National Health Program and speaks frequently on health policy issues.
Ed presented a deep dive into the DCE ACO/REACH program that continues on track to fully privatize Traditional Medicare by 2030. REACH proponents are misleading some members of Congress into trusting that REACH addresses the problems inherent in the current DCE models. Ed discussed the 50 year trajectory that has been leading to this corporate takeover of Medicare, the concerns that remain with DCE/REACH, and how to respond to the misinformation thrown out there by the corporate interests pushing these models.
Watch it on YouTube.
AN ASK: During the meeting members of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA) asked us for help getting organizations and individuals to sign on to two letters (read here) to 1) Biden, HHS Secretary Becerra, and 2) to our Congressional delegation asking to end the DCE/REACH programs by this December. Also, PSARA is working to get similar resolutions passed by local government councils & district political clubs. The goal is to get thousands of individual signatures & hundreds of organization to support this effort. You can read the letters and resolutions attached below. If you are willing to co-sign add how you would like to be designated, (e.g. your name, retired health care worker, Seattle). Also, please reach out to organizations and/or individuals you feel comfortable asking to co-sign these two PSARA letters. Follow this link to tell PSARA you would like sign on
PNHPWA Web Site - pnhpwashington.org
PNHPWA Email - pnhp.washington@gmail.com
PNHPWA YouTube Channel
PNHPWA Instagram
Coalition Partner Websites
Health Care for All Washington
Health Care is a Human Right Washington
Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action
Learn about the dangers of private managed care companies delivering publicly funded health plans - a cautionary tale for our WA Universal Health Care Commission. Keynote speaker Dr. Stephen Kemble is charged with overall health planning for the state of Hawaii and with designing a universal health care system covering everyone in Hawaii. He is a national PNHP Board member who heads PNHP's Anti-Privatization Workgroup - Check for video
on how Medicare Advantage sabotages traditional Medicare - watch it here
"Next Steps for Health Care Reform in Washington and Beyond"
Andre Stackhouse, Campaign Director for Whole Washington
Watch the meeting here
"Mobilizing to Stop DCE's"
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“Strengthening Our PNHP Chapter in 2022”
Glen Anderson - Activist, teacher
Watch the Video Here
Chuck Richards
Download John's Powerpoint slides here
Watch the meeting here

Healthcare Now has made several videos of the plenary session and workshops from its excellent Jan 18-24
available:
Pramila Jayapal: Victories and Challenges Ahead for the M4A Bill - here
Panel: Where We Go from Here: Lessions for the Movement - here
COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunities for Medicare for All - here
False Promise of the Public Option - here
Medicare for All and the Future of Labor - here
Implicit Bias, Health Inequities, and Medicare for All - here
Medicare for All and Racial Justice - here
Single Payer 101 + Biden's Plans - here
Shaping the Fight in a New Organizing Landscape - here
Notes on Developing Leadership - here
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