Medicare For All Act Reintroduced To Congress— Here’s What You Can Do To Help

Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Debbie Dingell (MI-12) are set to introduce The Medicare for All Act of 2021 (H.R. 1384) to Congress on March 17th, exactly one year after the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in all 50 states.

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5 min readMar 17, 2021

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Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal (center) is a third-term Congresswoman and Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who has spent much of her national political career fighting for universal healthcare in the United States.

Representative Pramila Jayapal, a leading Congressional progressive and longtime proponent of establishing universal healthcare in the United States, joins fellow Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell this week in reintroducing H.R. 1384 to establish a single-payer universal healthcare system in the United States. You can tune in to the virtual town hall hosted by Jayapal, Dingell, and Public Citizen on March 17th at 12:00pm EST. Universal healthcare advocates from Physicians for a National Health Program, National Nurses United, and more will be announcing the introduction of the bill, as well as instructions on how to get involved in the fight.

The bill has been introduced to the House of Representatives once every Congressional term since 2003, when the late Congressman, and founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative John Conyers (MI-14) first introduced H.R. 676 —…

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