New Jersey Universal Healthcare Coalition
"Conventional wisdom dictates that universal single-payer health care is politically impossible. The special interests that profit exorbitantly from the current system are just too powerful. That perception is accurate, of course, but only if nobody has the courage and wit to mobilize the anger of the dissatisfied voters." - Joe Conason, The New York Observer, February 2006
NJUHC General Membership Meeting Saturday, December 1, 10 AM, Labor Education Center, 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 All are Welcome. Please invite organizations in your network, that support Medicare for All, to send representatives to this meeting. Refreshments include coffee, water, bagels and pastries. Hear featured speaker Analilia Mejia, Director of the …
March for Peace Set to Promote Healthcare Justice The Green Party of Ocean County will host March for Peace: End the Wars in Toms River on Saturday, Sept. 15 from 1-3 pm. The event will begin at the courtyard next to the Ocean County Library at 101 Washington St., followed by a march through downtown Toms River. …
NJUHC August 2018 E-Newsletter Red Bank Fix-It Viewing and Panel Discussion The next big event NJUHC will sponsor, in cooperation with Our Revolution Monmouth County, is on October 1 at 7 PM at the United Methodist Church of Red Bank in Red Bank, NJ. We will show Fix-It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point and two of the three panelists …
New Jersey based single payer legislation has been proposed by Democratic Assemblyman John Wisniewski. He may introduce this legislation which is similar to the California bill in January 2018. Ass. Wisniewski is currently soliciting comments. Here is a press release with a link to the draft bill: https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/wisniewski-announces-single-payer-legislation-legislation-introduced-next-session/