The Health Care Committee (HCC) has yet to get underway for fall 2025--but we're eager to hear from LWVA members.  We are ALWAYS looking for new members.  Join US.  We have plenty of initiatives that need to start up again--or if you have a Health Care story that needs some action taken, come share it and let's see what we can team up on for it.

Meanwhile, the HCC is working on a project from last year with the LWV national Health Care Reform Interest Group: concurring with a new addition to the LWVUS Privatization position (in good part to pursue DE-privatizing or maintain the public status of a health care unit).  Our goals are explained in the 2021 book, the Privatization of Everything.

This month, the Health Care Committee continued to pursue our project to learn about students' knowledge and attitudes about health care alternatives in the U.S.

We did some informal "tabling" at the Blue Wall food court in the UMass Campus Center. That is, instead of us being installed at a table, we visited tables with groups of students and asked if we could speak with them about health care. After a brief description of Massachusetts' and other states' initiatives to establish single-payer plans within a few individual states before doing it at the national level, we emphasized the importance of understanding younger voters' concerns and needs and asked them if they would agree to sign up with us to participate in a focus group on the topic. (We gave out LWV Healthy People/Healthy Democracy bookmarks and also offered pizza.)

Last month we mentioned that we are working on "opening up" college students as an advocacy group for single payer healthcare. We are moving forward on that and will have more to report next month.

We are excited that the Single Payer/Medicare for All national bill will be introduced Tuesday, April 29th. The 11:00 AM launch should be live-streamed on the YouTube channel of main sponsor Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA), and then available here.