Universal healthcare. By bill or by ballot!
Universal 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 few moments to comment on the bill and ask for it to have a hearing?...
Watch 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 our latest “dinner and a movie” night where we will be screening Power to Heal, a...Continue reading
Happy 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 into a bin You can drop off sheets at one of our bin locations, which...Continue reading
Hello 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 our legislators. (Hello photo ops!!) Rest assured every signature you helped collect during this campaign...Continue reading
Happy Giving Tuesday! We hope you’re doing well this holiday season – Whole Washington is thankful for the incredible dedication of the healthcare justice movement. To every volunteer, donor, and supporter of Whole Washington, you are our constant reminder that we can win healthcare for all. We have a few humble suggestions for action you can take this giving Tuesday. 1. Become a recurring Whole Washington donor – small...Continue reading
Yesterday was quite the exciting election night and while we are waiting on some results we have some BIG victories for #HealthcareJustice we’d like to share! National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) Medicare for All seems to have held up well this midterm. We are still waiting for some races to be called, and it will take some time to sift through all the results, but it appears that Medicare...Continue reading
Happy election week! Whole Washington is continuing to gather signatures for I-1471 to get universal healthcare on the ballot statewide. But does your ballot already have a Whole Washington supporter on it? As you fill out your ballot, check out these candidates for office who have endorsed or cosponsored at least one version of the Washington Health Trust! Thank you to all our supporters! Legislative District Candidate 1 Rep. Davina Duerr...Continue reading
Happy Friday movement for healthcare justice! How are you all doing? It’s been a hell of a campaign. With signatures due on December 30th, we still have just about two months to go, making that May 7th campaign launch feel all the longer time ago. Our current signature count is just a hair above 73,000 at the time of writing. The count is updated on our homepage every couple of days...Continue reading
Weekly Volunteer Meeting Please join us tonight at 7:00 PM for our weekly campaign-wide working meeting. Bring your ideas for a dream campaign, your questions, your inspiration, and your readiness to continue the fight for universal healthcare. We’re in it to win it, now and forever! Support Medicare for All Whole Washington is just one of many state-level healthcare justice movements, and we work and fight alongside many others in solidarity. This weekend,...Continue reading
Help Us Grow the Movement Election cycles come and go, but to win universal healthcare, we have to hold the line! Whole Washington is a grassroots organization, made up of volunteers putting in what they can. We are more than a campaign; we’re a movement. The bigger our movement, the stronger we are, both for Washington and the nation. It can take even a simple conversation to inspire someone to get...Continue reading