Become a High Fiver!Sign up for a $5 recurring donation and receive a "Healthcare that's Always There" pin as a thank you. SB 5335 establishes the Washington State Universal Health Care Commission and provides universal healthcare for Washington residents. It establishes the Washington Health Trust and outlines funding, benefits coverage, provider reimbursements, and implementation. Whole Washington works to...
Whole Washington on The Thom Hartmann ProgramOur vice-chair Kathryn Lewandowsky was a guest speaker on the Thom Hartmann Program. Kathryn appears at 2:16:00. Please watch then try and call into Thom and tell your story or add info we didn’t have time to cover. And tell him you’d like to hear from Andre also.
NEW! Commission Team – Join nowWe have some exciting news. The Commission Team is Forming Now We’re looking for volunteers to join a new team to focus on the WA State Universal Health Care Commission (UHCC) and its progress. The Commission is tasked with making “…the health care system more accessible by increasing access to quality, affordable health care.” That simply isn’t...
Whole Washington Board meeting and other updatesThe Whole Washington Board of Directors held their February meeting this afternoon. The Board meeting was open to the public and a recording is linked below. We hope you will join us at future Board meetings, as maintaining a close relationship between our volunteers and leadership is essential to building a grassroots people-powered movement. Please...
Whole Washington supports SJM 8006On February 14th, 2023, the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care held a hearing on Senate Joint Memorial 8006, a joint resolution from the Washington state legislature to President Biden and the United States Congress requesting that the federal government implement a universal healthcare system. Several volunteers from Whole Washington attended and gave...
Volunteer Engagement Survey – Whole Washington needs your feedback!Hello Healthcare Justice Activists — Since our last update, we have been hard at work finishing the campaign for I-1471 while forging ahead with the new legislative session. Finishing 2022 and I-1471 So what was our final count? Well according to our data dashboard, we collected 87,557! Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who signed, gathered,...
Washington Health Trust – SB 5335 – IntroducedUniversal healthcare has been introduced in the Washington State Senate! Great news: we have a bill number for our Universal Healthcare legislation! SB 5335 will create a state-wide, non-profit healthcare system — the Washington Health Trust. Senator Hasegawa introduced the bill, and now we need YOUR help to get it passed! Can you take a...
MLK Day movie night w/ Whole WashingtonWatch Power to Heal for our latest “Dinner & Movie” night series Looking for an easy way to get back into the healthcare justice movement? This MLK Day you are invited to join Whole Washington for a special film screening in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy. Join us online Monday (1/16/23) at 5:30pm for...
Get your sheets turned in! Finishing the campaign & 2023Happy holidays! Whole Washington is working to collect every signature and petition sheet we can before the December 30th deadline. If you have any sheets with signatures on them, please get them turned in as soon as possible! Even if the sheet only has a single signature, please try to get it back to us. Turning them...
Time to get signatures back to the campaignHello Signature Captains and Signature Gatherers! Thank you SO much for all the effort you have extended on behalf of initiative 1471. The signature deadline is truly upon us. Please make a plan to get signed pages back to the campaign. Their final destination will be a presentation to the Secretary of State’s office and...