The MNA & NNU have an idea. “Medicare-for-All” or universal healthcare recognizes health is a right, and everyone in the United States gets healthcare when they need it. Un- and underinsurance are instantly eliminated. Patients no longer get sick because they can’t afford an asthma inhaler or insulin for their diabetes. Unions can move on to other pressing issues, like workplace violence against nurses.

We’re told single-payer eliminates our “choice” of health plans. As these nurses demonstrate, our choice is really our employer’s choice- to the point a strike is required to get affordable healthcare. I don’t want a choice of health insurance plans, I need healthcare when I need it.

Interested? Here are more resources. Also, “Medicare-for-All” is on the ballot in Colorado this fall, consider getting involved!

Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) FAQ:http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-faq

Healthcare Now! https://www.healthcare-now.org/

ColoradoCare: http://www.coloradocare.org/

Sign NNU’s petition for “Medicare-for-All”:http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/page/s/mfa-petition

RoseAnn DeMoro (NNU Executive Director) at The People’s Summit this past weekend: “When you make a compromise in healthcare, you’re basically issuing a death sentence. Because you’re saying that their lives don’t matter.”