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legislation
We must stop private health insurance company middlemen who provide no actual health care and limit our care.
Click here to write all your legislators in support of all these important bills
Federal Single Payer
Medicare-for-all bills
House bill HR 1976 - Research
Senate bill S. 1129 - Research
COVID-19 related bills
HR 6674 - Medicare Crisis Program Act (Jayapal - Kennedy - enrolls as many people as possible into Medicare, i.e., all of the recently unemployed (since the pandemic)
S 3790 and HR 6906 - Healthcare Emergency Guarantee Act (Sanders - Jayapal ) - empowers Medicare to cover COVID-19 related costs for every U.S. resident, until a vaccine became widely available. Bill summary HERE
Note: Both bills leave private insurance in place. Both are preferable to the bill subsidizing private insurance COBRA.
State Single Payer
2022 Medicare-for-All
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2022 Control Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM)s - H. 8002 and S. 2619 (Senate hearing 3-23-22)
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2021
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2021 RI Medicare-for-all - H. 5628 and S. 0233
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2021 RI Resolution urging passage of federal Medicare-for-all single payer legislation - H. 6078 and S. 0109
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2021 RI Resolution establishing a state single payer study commission - H. 5019 and S. 230
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2021 RI Resolution requesting Auditor General study Medicaid Privatization Costs - H. 6046 and S. 0049
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2021 Audit/Deprivatize RI Medicaid (remove Managed Care Organizations - MCOs) - H. 5449 and S. 379