2020 Candidates Will Have to Choose a Side — the Health Insurance Industry or the People
Try as elected officials might to pledge allegiance to both corporations and to people, it won’t work that way. Not anymore. As leaders in the...
Author : Bonnie Castillo, RN, opinion contributor for The Hill
Giant steps – the next stage in the fight for Medicare for All
The long journey toward transforming our health care system to ensure that all our nation’s people get the care they need is entering its next...
National Nurses Statement on Proposals for Limited Health Care Reform as Opposed to Medicare for All
‘Market-driven models are a placebo that will only prolong the pain and delay the care we need’ – NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN Efforts...
2019: The Year of Medicare for All
Behind all of the disheartening statistics found in the current for-profit system are real people, enduring pain and suffering that should be unacceptable in the...
Why mixing Medicare with commercial insurance is not the health reform we need
At a gathering in Burlington, Vermont, convened by the Sanders Institute, with support from National Nurses United, I spoke about the perils of mixing Medicare...
Great Expectations: California’s First Steps Toward Universal Health Care
In September 2017, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom stood in front of a crowd of 1,500 nurses in San Francisco and pledged his support for bringing...
What a Democratic House will mean for Medicare for All
They helped Democrats take back the House. Now grassroots activists are demanding lawmakers pass single-payer legislation. Thousands of people dialed into a call Tuesday evening...
‘Path to Winning Is With People Power’: Medicare for All Leaders Strategize Roadmap to Victory
“We’re going to push the Democrats to do it. There is absolutely, unequivocally no excuse for the Democrats not to support Medicare for All.” Wasting...
What the midterms taught us: A ‘PEOPLE’S WAVE’ is rising. And we WILL win Medicare for All.
From record voter turnout — to mass grassroots door knocking, phone banking and volunteering, the win the pundits overlooked is the win of a rising “people’s wave.”...
How to Fully Protect People with Pre-Existing Conditions: Medicare for All
Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican — Donald Trump In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the top dog, or pig in...