Take action today! This action alert has four, count ‘em FOUR, actions for universal health care!
For more information on each of these bills, visit our Legislation page.
SJM 8006 Requesting that the federal government create a universal health care program.
Sponsors: Hasegawa, Cleveland, Billig, Kuderer, Lovelett, Nguyen, Shewmake, Stanford, Valdez, Wilson, C.
Feb 14 at 1:30 p.m. House Health Care and Wellness
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Deadline: 7 am on Feb 14
What this bill does:
Calls on the Federal government to resolve our national healthcare crisis or, failing that, to enable states like Washington to get it done.
Why it’s important:
Enhances the ability of our Universal Health Care Commission to design and fund the universal health care system envisioned and mandated by our State Legislature under SB 5399 (2021).
SB 5241 - Concerning material changes to the operations and governance structure of participants in the healthcare marketplace.
Sponsors: Randall, Rolfes, Kuderer, Trudeau, Pedersen, Shewmake, Hunt, Saldaña, Kauffman, Valdez, Lovick, Robinson, Lovelett, Liias, Frame, Nguyen, Stanford, Wilson, C.
Feb 14 at 8:00 a.m. Public Hearing House Civil Rights & Judiciary
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Deadline: 7 am on Feb 14
What this bill does:
- Strengthens reporting requirements for mergers and acquisitions between insurance companies, hospitals and other investors and requires public notice and input into proposed mergers.
Why it’s Important:
- Puts guardrails around the rapid and alarming rate of consolidation of health care facilities.
HB 1508 - Improving consumer affordability through the health care cost transparency board.
Sponsors: Macri, Riccelli, Simmons, Fitzgibbon, Berry, Alvarado, Bateman, Ormsby, Doglio, Reed, Callan, Stonier, Tharinger, Bergquist
Feb 15 at 10:30 a.m. Senate Health & Long Term Care
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Deadline: 11:59 p.m. on Feb 14
What this bill does:
- Expands patient voice and adds labor and small business representatives to the advisory committee.
- Expands data collection and adds enforcement.
Why it’s important
- Increases the power of this Board to enforce transparency in pricing.
HB 1979 - Reducing the cost of inhalers and epinephrine autoinjectors.
Sponsors: Paul, Leavitt, Duerr, Reed, Ormsby, Callan, Kloba, Doglio, Fosse, Ortiz-Self, Hackney, Shavers
Feb 15 at 10:30 a.m. Senate Health & Long Term Care
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Deadline: 11:59 p.m. on Feb 14
What this bill does:
- Caps the price of a 30-day supply of asthma inhalers & a two-pack of epinephrine autoinjectors at $35.
Why it’s Important:
- It’s a life-saving drug needed on a regular basis, whether enrolled in an insurance plan or not and affected persons may run out of their supply sooner than expected.
Thank you for taking action! We're on our way to Everybody In, Nobody Out health care!
We can’t get to universal health care without your support.
