Health Care 4 US

Tomorrow on @hc4us.bsky.social on KPFK talking Termination Fee ! Grab pwyc tix now! www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/115...

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!

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

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.

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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

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.

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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.

YouTube video by Health Care for US (HC4US) 04/11/2025 - HC4US show with Erika Feresten & Gina Viola and guest Smiley T (creator show theme)

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?...

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,...

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...

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

Today’s read! Thank you @ericreinhart.bsky.social and Raeghn Draper for this vital piece about putting the PUBLIC back into our public health.

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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

Excellent read from @kimberlyjsoenen.bsky.social

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📣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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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.

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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

Don’t miss our latest and greatest episode where Jackie talks immigration and health. on.soundcloud.com/cyTVjNc5doox...

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Live now!

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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.

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

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

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

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

Check out past epidsodes like this one, soundcloud.com/hc4us/013120...
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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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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The Least Amount of Harm On vigilantes, who venerates them, and why

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-...

We had a REAL bill last year, AB2200. A true single payer healthcare bill that Newsom didn't like, because it eliminates the health insurance industry. Now in light of the nation's cry for Medicare For All, he will be bringing something forward to LOOK like M4ALL but still keep his friends making $

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!

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!

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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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

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

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.

When our own Carol Fodera tells it like it is to LA Times! www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...