Archivist Entertainment announces the World Premiere of Healing US in U.S. Major Cities Tour Premiere in Tacoma, WA — Friday, May 19th, 2023 What: World Premiere Healing US (2023) Documentary Film When: 7:00pm PST | Fri. May 19th, 2023 Where: The Grand Theater | 606 Fawcett Avenue Tacoma, WA, 98402 United States | Tickets A full list of film showings are on the website…

Jen Nye, jen@wholewashington.org | Andre Stackhouse, Andre.stackhouse@wholewashington.org, Phone: (971) 716–1865 WHEN: Saturday, May 7th, 9am — 12pm WHERE: Live at the Grand Cinema, 606 Fawcett and online WHO: Michael Moore, Director of ‘Sicko’ will stream in for a Q & A after the movie showing. Donna Smith, who appears in…

Whole Washington, a grassroots group dedicated to getting Universal Healthcare passed in the state of Washington, filed an Initiative to the Legislature on March 23rd, 2022. The bill would create The Washington Health Trust, guaranteeing high-quality and comprehensive benefits that include vision, dental, audiology, mental health services, prescription drug coverage…

As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, billions of people worldwide still don’t have access to COVID vaccines and treatments. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies are making $1 million per hour of profits but our elected officials refuse to stand up to them, likely because our representatives get campaign…

The Canadian Strategy for Passing Universal Healthcare The article “Medicare for None: A Response to the State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2021” (Common Dreams May, 29, 2021) misses the bill’s point. The article claims that Congressman Ro Khanna’s bill will cause the Balkanization of Medicare, but in reality, the bill will provide the framework for saving…

After much noise, some cautious optimism from healthcare organizations, and nearly two years of work, the Universal Health Care Work Group (UHCG) fell well short of the goal many of us hoped for: a recommendation to the legislature of a state-based single payer system. So why after input from hundreds…

On March 26, 2016, three years ago to the day as I write this, I woke up extra early and got gussied up. I was going to do something I had never done before: participate in a presidential caucus. Having come from a closed primary state, where even for the…

“The public health insurance option, also known as the public insurance option or the public option, is a proposal to create a government-run health insurance agency that would compete with other private health insurance companies within the United States.” [source] Before I begin, I would like to first say that…

Anyone who has ever studied single payer healthcare and other universal healthcare systems around the world knows this truth: it saves money as well as lives. And we aren’t talking about a few million dollars here and there. We’re talking about billions of dollars. Dr. Gerald Friedman recently concluded in…