2024 Legislation Archive |
HCFA-WA's three budget provisos supporting universal health care made it into the supplementary budget; improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board; preserving coverage of preventive services without cost sharing; protecting consumers from health care service charges for out-of-network ground ambulance services; greater regulation of pharmacy benefit managers; reducing costs for inhalers and epinephrine autoinjectors. |
2023 Legislation Archive |
Increasing funding for the UHCC and its FTAC: an additional $466K for dedicated administrative support and actuarial expertise; increased funding for Immigrant Health: $53 million total to establish a Medicaid look-alike program for immigrants; improving the quality of behavioral health care; minimum staffing standards in hospitals; and establishing and authorizing the profession of dental therapy |
2022 Legislation Archive |
Laying the foundation for publicly funded universal health care, increasing health care transparency, lowering health care costs and increasing access to health care, achieving greater health equity with respect to race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and immigration status |
2021 Legislation Archive |
Creating the Universal Health Care Commission, making the Exchange plans more affordable and accessible, lowering drug prices, and understanding the true cost of hospital care |
2020 Legislation Archive |
All about lowering the price of insulin and other pharmaceutical drugs |
Federal Legislation Archive |
The State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2021 |