Protecting and Expanding Medicare and Medicaid
Medicaid and Medicare are the nation’s largest healthcare care programs, covering around 140 million people–that’s over one third of the nation’s population including seniors, people with disabilities, children, pregnant women and millions of low-income workers. Many improvements have been made to both over the years but there’s still much more to do to guarantee that these programs will continue to thrive and provide millions of people with the healthcare they need. Medicaid and Medicare, along with Social Security benefits, are the pillars of healthcare and economic security for hundreds of millions of Americans and the basis for building increased prosperity and opportunity for the future. Social Security benefits can be expanded by making wealthy people pay their fair share into the system just like working and middle class people already do.
Kiowa County Press: America’s wealthiest now worth a record $5.8 trillion
Providing the Health Care Everyone Deserves Depends on Workers
President Biden has repeatedly affirmed that in the United States, health care should be a right, not a privilege. But guaranteeing everyone access to the health care they need is going to require dramatic action over the coming years, including meaningful...
14th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
In response to 14th Anniversary of the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA) that has brought the number of uninsured people to a record low, reduced racial health disparities and stopped insurance corporations from discriminating against people with pre-existing...
14 Features to Celebrate on the ACA’s 14th Anniversary
March 23, 2024 marks the 14th anniversary of the passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act, the most significant and comprehensive healthcare reform since the 1960s passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The law took two years to pass, over a decade to implement and...
President’s SOTU Touts More Affordable Health Care, Restoration of Reproductive Freedom and Fairer Tax Code to Support Future Investment in America
In response to President Biden’s State of the Union address calling for permanent measures for making healthcare more affordable and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations to support an economy that works for all, Health Care for America Now Education Fund...
Social Media Toolkit: Tax Billionaires Now
Summary: Billionaires continue to grow richer than ever before, making more in an hour than most Americans can hope to make in a lifetime. Estimates indicate that the world could see its first ever trillionaire within the next decade. But despite this unprecedented...
Barn Raiser: The Organizers Forging a Rural Action Plan for 2024
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This Black History Month, Many Black Americans Are Still Struggling to Access the Health Care They Need
It seems inadequate to designate just one month a year Black History Month given how central Black people have been to every epoch of our nation’s development dating back to the earliest days of the Republic. Nonetheless, Black History is a good opportunity to take...
Basic Summary: Creation of a Fiscal Commission in 118th Congress
What is the “fiscal commission” and why is it important to pay attention? In November, 2023, the House Budget Committee held a hearing to consider creating a fiscal commission that would address the nation’s growing national debt which some legislators consider the...