by Editorial Team | Mar 1, 2026 | News
A new bill calling for establishment of a single-payer universal healthcare system in California was introduced in February in the state legislature. Assembly member Ash Kalra (D-San José) introduced AB 1900, The Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), sponsored...
by Editorial Team | Aug 28, 2025 | Events
What we don’t know can hurt us and in fact is hurting us. When did health care become big business? When did patients become customers? To free ourselves from the grip of today’s profit-first medical industry, we need to understand it better. Enter former...
by Editorial Team | Jul 11, 2025 | Events, News
This gathering celebrates the birthdays of Medicare and Medicaid (July 1965) and Social Security (August 1935). It calls on elected officials and the pubic to oppose life-threatening cuts at the federal level and to continue fighting to protect these programs that...
by Editorial Team | May 16, 2025 | News
On February 23, Michael Lighty, president of the Healthy California Now statewide coalition (HCN), was the featured speaker at the annual HCA membership meeting. He started off with a plea for a society based on “caring, compassion, and community.” View...
by Editorial Team | May 15, 2025 | Events, News
Here’s a bandwagon single payer supporters can jump on! Abdul El-Sayed, doctor, epidemiologist, municipal and county health director, Columbia University professor, and co-author of–wait for it–Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide...
