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We want healthy school bus drivers driving our kids to school!
February 07, 2018
School Bus Drivers in Seattle are on strike for health care. It’s a no brainer: if we had single payer in our state, there would be no need to strike over health care coverage. The School Bus Drivers would be able to get the...
Read MoreRally, Hearing, and Lobby Day in Olympia
January 19, 2018
On January 16, HCFA-WA took to the Capitol steps in support of single payer healthcare. Senator David Frockt introduced our bill, SB5701, to the Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee, and many people offered testimony in support of a single payer system. Attendees...
Read MoreHCFA-WA President Marcia Stedman on Indivisible WA podcast
January 12, 2018
"Healthcare would be privately delivered but publicly financed through the Washington Health Security Trust...health professionals and patients would make the medical decisions, not an insurance company."
Read MoreHCFA-WA Outreach Co-Chair Ruth Knagenhjelm's Letter to the Editor
December 05, 2017
In response to the recent school-bus driver's strike in Seattle, our Outreach Committee co-chair Ruth Knagenhjelm wrote to the Seattle Times to offer a complete solution: universal healthcare. The entirety of her letter is below.
Read MoreFall Newsletter 2017
October 12, 2017
Senator Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Bill (S 1804) After many months of waiting, Sen. Sanders finally filed his bill “Medicare for All Act of 2017” on September 13. The bill has certainly led to an avalanche of commentary about what it would do,...
Read MoreA Letter to the Editor from the Bothell Reporter
October 09, 2017
This letter by Roger Ledbetter of Snoqualmie appeared in the Bothell Reporter on September 29th. In it, he illustrates the true cost of privatized medicine: preventable loss of life, high infant mortality rates for a developed country, and your premiums funding your insurance company's...
Read MoreHCFA-WA President Marcia Stedman's Letter to the Editor
October 07, 2017
In a September 28th letter to the Seattle Times, Health Care for All Washington president Marcia Stedman defines one facet of the many economic benefits to universal healthcare: lower prices for the consumer when businesses aren't burdened with the costs of providing healthcare to...
Read MoreSave the date! - Nov. 4th, 2017 – HCFA-WA Annual Membership Meeting
September 19, 2017
Save the date! - Nov. 4th, 2017 – HCFA-WA Annual Membership Meeting - 1:00-4:00 p.m. Registration opens at 12:30 p.m. Horizon House, 900 University Ave., Seattle, WA. More details soon.
Read MoreMeeting with Casey Katims, Senior Policy Analyst for Health Care Office of Congresswoman Suzan del Bene CD 1 August 30, 2017
September 15, 2017
Our group shared current personal stories about health care access difficulties with the ACA and pointed out the superiority of a system as outlined in HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. Casey noted that 80% of his workload concerns health...
Read MoreSenators Murray and Cantwell: “Keep Doing What You’re Doing!”
September 15, 2017
HCFA-WA’s primary mission is to achieve state-based universal health care, but we are also a founding member organization of the Health Care is a Human Right (HCHR) Campaign. As such, we participated in recent meetings with Staff members of Washington State’s two Senators, Maria...
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