2022 Medicare for All Strategy Conference

Our fight to win Medicare for All cannot be fought solely on legislative terrain. We will need the passage of legislation to get us over the finish line, but we must also have a head on fight with the economic and political forces amassed against us. Medicare for All would take an entire fifth of our economy away from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and give it back to everyday people in the form of universal health care. Abolition was the last time a social movement so radically transformed the US economy. In other parts of the world there have been more recent successful struggles for the protection or restoration of public goods. This panel examines six case studies, from across the globe, of social movements taking on various forms of injustice and privatization. From Chile to Ireland, from Bolivia to South Africa, from Britain to Canada, these struggles have valuable lessons for us now that we can use in our fight for healthcare justice.