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HC4US operates with the utmost urgency to guarantee health care for all California residents. Our purpose is to educate, activate and agitate, to ultimately legislate. Join us in our fight to win CalCare and ultimately Medicare For All www.hc4us.org

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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They killed CalCare because they knew they had the “votes” and that a “no”vote would be explosive. It’s time to vote for candidates who will implement single-payer healthcare DESPITE our all to corrupt CA Legislature - Let's go @butchware.bsky.social
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Asians and Pacific Islanders for CalCare @apiforcalcare.com · 22/03/2026
The Democratic Party has a supermajority in CA, the fourth largest economy in the world, but Newsom has led the blockage of #CalCare reform twice already, choosing to side with private insurance companies instead of the people in need of health care. #AB1900 @hc4us.bsky.social @cusp-hq.bsky.social
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"IF NEWSOME CAN'T PASS CALCARE WITH A SUPERMAJORITY HE CAN'T DELIVER AS PRESIDENT'
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Join us and sign @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Pass CalCare AB 1900. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...
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Pass CalCare AB 1900
We demand that Governor Newsom and the Democratic supermajority in the state legislature prioritize people and patients over lobbyists seeking to kill this bill out of greed. Pass Assembly Bill 1900, ...
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Punch Up Pod @punchuppod.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
TONIGHT! Trump & Israel launch illegal war against Iran with tacit approval of Democrats. Target schools, hospitals, Supreme Leader Anti-war marches all over the US Guests Mark Norberg & Gina Viola join to discuss CA United for Single-Payer/CalCare www.youtube.com/live/-AIXm0f...
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Epic Fury & The Epstein Class Edition! w/ CA United Single-Payer (CUSP)
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
California has a single-payer healthcare bill LIVE right now. CalCare AB1900 - call your CA legislatures and let them know what you want!! We cannot let the bill die as it has too many times before. Take a look at the how and why it happened so we don't let it happen again! hc4us.org/the-sabotage...
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The Sabotage of Single Payer Healthcare [CounterPunch] – Health Care For Us
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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Call your California State Assembly Member and Senator to ask them to support CalCare act.medicare4all.org/call/calcare
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Call your California State Assembly Member and Senator to ask them to support CalCare
In the last year, Trump and Republicans in Congress have gutted live saving health care programs like Medicaid and the ACA. Millions of people in California risk losing their health coverage if no act...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A reminder that ICE’s budget, $28 billion, is larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons combined. (Via Bernie Sanders)
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Ron Placone @ronplacone.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Tomorrow on @hc4us.bsky.social on KPFK talking Termination Fee ! Grab pwyc tix now! www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/115...
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Tune in to @kpfk.bsky.social tomorrow on www.hc4us.org to hear about our delegation to Cuba. Guess what, they have healthcare and it's excellent! Only thing holding it back is the nasty US blockade!
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Wouldn't it be fantasic if mental health were considered part of our healthcare in general? Let's make it so by passing Single Payer Healthcare. Gie last week's @kpfk.bsky.social show a listen! Thank you Brad Scott for being our guest and giving us your time. soundcloud.com/hc4us/050220...
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05/02/2025 - HC4US Radio show with host Sheila Bates and guest Brad Scott (Licensed Therapist)
Your host is Sheila Bates (HC4US board member), a trained sexual assault crisis counselor and full spectrum birth worker. She is also the policy coordinator at Black Lives Matter Grassroots. In her
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Check out our latest HC4US show on KPFK where we are talking all things climate change as it relates to our health, or lack thereof! Thank you @auravasquez.bsky.social for sharing your knowledge with us and our host Jackie Hernandez. soundcloud.com/hc4us/2025-0...
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2025-04-25 - HC4US show with host Jackie Hernandez and guest Aura Vasquez
In the episode, your host is Jackie Hernandez with guest Aura Vasquez (http://AuraVasquez.com/meet-aura), a renewable energy advisor and environmental justice advocate. A nationally recognized leader
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Today I learned that if you go to the doctor for an annual physical and they ask about your health and you mention any health issue, they can bill you for a second visit on top of your annual for which there should be zero co-pays.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Check out our past episode with none other than the man who created our show's theme song. You can't hear it, and not sing it all day long! youtu.be/deNsIZqmPSQ?...
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04/11/2025 - HC4US show with Erika Feresten & Gina Viola and guest Smiley T (creator show theme)
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Today on April 9th, we will never forget Danny, or stop fighting for the single payer healthcare that would have saved his life. www.timesunion.com/news/article...
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After son's suicide, Stillwater father fights 'cruel, indifferent' health system
A lot of things happened in a short period of time to drive Daniel Desnoyers to suicide,...
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Today’s read! Thank you @ericreinhart.bsky.social and Raeghn Draper for this vital piece about putting the PUBLIC back into our public health. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
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Democratizing care to care for democracy: community care workers and anti-racist public health
Abstract. The organization of care in the United States reflects a longstanding prioritization of medical interventions over broader social support systems
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Excellent read from @kimberlyjsoenen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/somepeop...
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SHOULD HEALTHCARE BECOME A HUMAN RIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES?
Medical and healthcare professionals speak out on where we go from here | By Kimberly J. Soenen April 6, 2025
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Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
📣Urge the CA legislature to reduce corrections spending, close prisons & invest in critical social, health, education and environmental programs currently at risk 📲 bit.ly/budgetaction25 💡Closing 5 prisons can save over $1.5 billion annually that can and must be shifted to our communities!#CAbudget
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Today’s KPFK show can be not only heard, but seen here as well. Maebe A Girl joined us to talk about their own journey in being trans and what is happening at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. youtube.com/live/2ihJrRm...
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Don’t miss our latest and greatest episode where Jackie talks immigration and health. on.soundcloud.com/cyTVjNc5doox...
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02/28/2025 - host Jackie Hernandez; the intersection between health, immigration and well-being
This episode features host Jacqueline Hernandez, a health educator, researcher, and community health specialist with a background in psychology, sociology, and public health. She is dedicated to healt
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Live now! www.youtube.com/live/CsbRnFU...
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KPFK Radio HC4US Episode 53 Prerecorded with Butch Ware
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Tune in tomorrow morning 02/14/25 at 7:30am PST to hear what CA gubernatorial candidate @butchware.bsky.social has to say about healthcare and it being a RIGHT! CA has found its Single Payer Healthcare candidate. @kpfk.bsky.social
Beige flyer with red lettering featuring a circle headshot of Dr. Butch Ware, CA Gubernatorial Candidate. Top of flyher "Healthcare is a human right". Healthcare 4 us logo with a bright red star beside it. Large lettering ON KPFK 90.7 FM This Friday 7:30am. Radio mic featured in the middle of the flyer. Bottomwind caption "listen live and on rewind at hc4us.org"Dr. Butch Ware featured with a serious expression. Wearing a black shirt with bright red trim and patterns. Dr. Ware has dark curly hair, a mustache and some facial hair, not quite a full beard and a dark brown complexion.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Be sure and check out all of our past episodes HERE. And give us a follow! It's real talk about Single Payer Healthcare, why we need it and why we still don't have it. soundcloud.com/hc4us
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HC4US
Health Care for US (HC4US) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization of volunteers championing California single-payer health care. HC4US advocates for comprehensive, high-quality universal health ca
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Check out past epidsodes like this one, soundcloud.com/hc4us/013120... On Soundcloud
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01/31/2025 - HC4US Radio show with Jose Gutierrez
Hosts Erika Feresten and Gina Viola welcome Jose Gutierrez, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Abolitionist and Restorative Justice Facilitator. Jose is a Los Angeles native with Maya Lenca roots in El
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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Tomorrow morning on the la radio airwaves. Tune in! 90.7 FM or kpfk.org. Sheila is kicking off Black History Month with Jan of Black Women for Wellness.
Healthcare 4 Us radio show flyer. Beige background. Red lettering. Healthcare is a human right. Hc4us logo. Red splashy star. Radio mic in the center to announce that Sheila Bates is the 1st Friday’s host. Circle headshot of Sheila in right bottom corner. Announcing Friday at 730am bottom left corner. Bottom reminds you to listen live and on rewind at hc4us.org
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Gardener @latesping01.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
With SB 770 @pnhp.bsky.social supported the very incrementalism that allows health insurance cos. to profiteer in CA that it rejects nationally. PNHP’s wrongheadedness here would be farcical if not so sad and ironic.
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Asians and Pacific Islanders for CalCare @apiforcalcare.com · 26/01/2025
White middle-class leadership of PNHP has shown their vulnerability to neoliberal scams pushed by opportunists who work for private insurer interests like Michael Lighty of Healthy CA Now. A common sign of this is the failure of these parties to address systemic healthcare inequality in earnest.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I hope @theguardian.com digs a little deeper into @pnhp.bsky.social and why they chose not to push for the CA single-payer bill AB2200 last year. CA single-payer would lead to Medicare For All. Just like it happened in Canada! Instead PNHP fought for the nothing burger SB770.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Let's face it, Friday is THE best day of th week and they just got a whole lot better. Tune in tomorrow morning and every Friday morning moving forward on KPFK 90.7 FM or KPFK.org We are going to be talking about how community keeps us safe, healthy and well. Jump up early and give a listen! 7am.
Beige background flyer with bold orange letters that say Your Fridays Just got even better! Health Care 4 US logo in the middle of the now. Wording to indicate the show is every friday on KPFK.org 90.7 FM at 7:30am.  Big radio old fashioned mic on the left hand side. Listen live at hc4us.org
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Pretty sure last year’s budget deficit was a total ruse to kill AB2200, CalCare, the single payer healthcare bill that would have eliminated the insurance pariahs. calmatters.org/politics/202...
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California has more money than expected. Here’s how Gavin Newsom wants to spend it
Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2025 California budget calls for a new homeless agency and free diapers for infants. It points to uncertainty because of fires and President-elect Trump.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
For my newsletter, I wrote about who is and isn't allowed to be a vigilante and how our tolerance for violence is incredibly subjective: audacity.substack.com/p/the-least-...
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The Least Amount of Harm
On vigilantes, who venerates them, and why
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Gavin Newsom plans to back a secret "universal health care" bill, but he's doing it w/o the Nurses Union, the #singlepayer champions. ACT NOW! Make 3 phone calls TODAY: Newsom: (916) 445-2841 & YOUR reps (AM & SS) Urge them to partner w/ Nurses to pass #CalCare!
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 31/12/2024
If you’re wondering what’s going on with bird flu, this is a good overview. It’s honestly kind of terrifying but I’d rather be informed than left in the dark like the early days of Covid. We’re making all the same mistakes, and spoiler alert, it’s because profit is more important than people!
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
UN Expert Urges Medical Boycott of Israel After It Detains Hospital Director truthout.org/articles/un-...
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UN Palestine Expert Calls for Medical Boycott of Israel Over Detention of North Gaza Hospital Director
Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system is a “critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Francesca Albanese said.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Let talk's about the JOKE our healthcare is with comedian Graham Elwood! We’re live TODAY December 23 at 1:00 PM, PST on KPFK 90.7 FM Pacifica Radio Los Angeles. Our radio show is also live streamed on kpfk.org and our website, hc4us.org. Call in and tell us YOUR healthcare horror story 818.985.5735
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Ron Placone @ronplacone.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Sunday! LA! Come see part 1 of our play that calls out the health insurance industry and some stand-up! @sarakaygodot.bsky.social @andrewsaxena.bsky.social @hc4us.bsky.social @hollywood4.bsky.social
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
When our own Carol Fodera tells it like it is to LA Times! www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Letters to the Editor: Don't target insurance CEOs. Target the medical insurance industry
The killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO prompts an examination of the inefficient U.S. healthcare system and comparisons to universal healthcare abroad.
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Ron Placone @ronplacone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Got a nice write about Dec 15! Thanks @hc4us.bsky.social ! Join us! Tix at ronplacone.com ! @sarakaygodot.bsky.social @andrewsaxena.bsky.social
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Tune in to the Health Care for US program on KPFK today at 1PM PST/livestream at KPFK.org. We’ll be talking to Graywolf, Dir of AIMSo_Cal about the intersection of HealthCareJustice through a single payer system and Indigenous advocacy.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We are going on air today to talk with Sennett Devermont, also known as Mr. Checkpoint to talk about his work with unhoused Veterans in Los Angeles. Tune in today at 1pm PST to kpfk.org or 90.7 on your FM dial in Los Angeles.
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
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Covid Restrictions Brought Back At Tour De France
The Tour de France stepped up protective measures on Sunday, to "limit health risks" in the face of a resurgence of Covid-19, which has affected several riders in recent days.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
A reminder you can hear all about the state of our healthcare system on the radio KPFK.org you can access past shows on our website hc4us.org We’ve had incredible guests from all over the world! Tune in!
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
The hill I will die on is that this is not a digital problem. We don't send younger kids out to play by themselves anymore for fear of kidnapping/CPS, and those kids become teens who don't do it either. There's also a loss of third spaces for teens. Even the freaking malls require chaperones.
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Today at 1p on @kpfk.bsky.social If you miss it, you can catch this and all our other past episodes on our website hc4us.org. Carmen wrote the CalCare AB2200 bill. This is our year to see it signed sealed delivered and OURS!
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Join us on 10.19.23 at 7pm PST to learn about ways you can help us fight for single payer healthcare. Let’s get it.
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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Did folks here know stuff still happens ON THA RADIO, oooooh ooooo oooooo ooooo on tha radio. Tune in! Thursday at 5p 90.7 FM KPFK.org
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
SB770 is bad appropriation of CA taxpayer money to obstruct the real Single Payer deal CalCare & usher in a multi-payer, for-profit, ACO insurance system. No on SB770! Call the Appropriations Cmte every week thru Aug 30! Go to bit.ly/StopSB770 to take action NOW!
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Health Care 4 US @hc4us.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Hi Bluesky! California will be the first state with Single Payer Healthcare when we enact CalCare. Stay tuned here for how to help make that a reality so what's below no longer is! open.substack.com/pub/audacity/p/th…
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The Price of Being Alive
On navigating the extraordinary cost of healthcare
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