On March 8, 2022, less than two weeks after the Biden Administration announced it was doubling down on Medicare privatization by launching the REACH program, a coalition of 250 organizations across the U.S. sent a letter to officials at the Dept. of Health and Human Services urging them to protect, rather than undermine, the future of Traditional Medicare.
We are still accepting signatures for this letter; please click HERE to add your organization to the list of groups demanding an end to REACH.
34th Legislative District Democrats
350 Humboldt
Action NC
Affinity Counseling
Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives
AFGE Local 1923, AFL-CIO
AFT-Oregon
AIT Technical Center
Akron Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America
All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care
Allegany County Democratic Committee (New York)
Alliance for Community Services
American Federation of Musicians, Local 99
American Medical Student Association
Americans for Democratic Action – Southern California Chapter
Anger Transformation Services
Arkansas Community Organizations
AZ Medicare for All Coalition
Backbone Campaign
Bay Area Solidarity
Bernie PDX
Bethlehem NY Indivisible
Black Workers for Justice
CabCo Senior Dems
California Alliance for Retired Americans
California Democratic Party Senior Caucus
California OneCare
Campaign for NY Health
Capital District Alliance for Universal Health Care (Albany, NY)
CCoHOPE Indivisible
CD-17 Indivisible
Center for Change Northern Michigan Advocacy
Center for Health and Democracy
Center for Popular Democracy
Center for Resilience and Connection
Central KY Council for Peace & Justice
Christian Alliance for Peace
Church Women United of Lane County, Oregon
Citizen Action of Wisconsin
Citizen Power, Inc.
Citizen’s Response Network of Wayne County
City Island Indivisible
Cleveland Jobs with Justice
Collegium Aesculapium Foundation
Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care
Committee of Interns and Residents / SEIU
Consumers Council of Missouri
Cornwell Group
Courage California
Creative Impression
Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee
CUFFH Action
CWA
DC-37
Democratic Party of Lane County
Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida
Democratic Socialists of America, Fort Worth
Democratic Socialists of America, North Texas
Democratic Socialists of America – Medicare for All Campaign
Democratic Socialists of America, Santa Barbara Calif. chapter
Democrats for Change
Desert Breeze Mental Health
Downtown East for Progress
DSA
DSA – Rio Grande Valley
DUH – Demand Universal Healthcare
East End Action Network
Fayette Fair Share PAC (Oak Hill, WV)
Fight Back Bay Ridge
First United Methodist Church of Eugene
Flint Rising
Florida 6th District Healthcare Action Group
Florida Rising
Foothills Coalition For Universal Healthcare
Full Bloom Farm
Good Neighbors of Park Slope
Granny Peace Brigade NYC
Gray Panthers of San Francisco
Greater Louisville AFL-CIO Retiree Council
Greater Louisville Central Labor Council
Greater WI Agency on Aging Resources, Inc.
Green Party of Connecticut
Green Party of Florida
Green Party of Santa Clara County
Hands-On Democracy
Harris County Texas Save Medicare Work Group
HCA/PNHP – Humboldt Chapters
HCA-MN
HCA-MN Duluth
HCAORV
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
Health Care Caucus of the 34th Legislative District, WA State
Health Care for All – California
Health Care For All CT
Health Care for All – Los Angeles Chapter
Health Care for All – Napa County
Health Care for All – Washington
Health Care for All Minnesota
Health Care for All Oregon
Health Care for All Oregon – Action
Health Care for All – South Carolina
Health Care for All Texas
Health Care for All – Western North Carolina
Health Care for All Working Group (Sonoma County, CA)
Health Care for All / Physicians for a National Health Program – Humboldt Chapter
Health Care Justice – NC
Health Care Justice UNC Charlotte
Health Policy Advocates, MN
Healthcare is an Act of Love
HealthCare Minnesota
Healthcare-NOW!
Heather Gardens Indivisible
Hibiscus Square LLC
HOPE in the Midwest, Health Over Profit for Everyone
Hudson Valley Strong
IEDSA
Illinois Single-Payer Coalition
Indivisible
Indivisible Arcata
Indivisible Binghamton
Indivisible Cayuga
Indivisible Cortland County
Indivisible Freeport
Indivisible Mohawk Valley
Indivisible Nation BK
Indivisible New Rochelle
Indivisible Salt City
Indivisible Sonoma County
Indivisible Ulster, NY19
Indivisible Ventura
Indivisible WE Rise West Central PA
Indivisible Yorktown
Inland Equity Partnership
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Itasca Working Family Alliance
Jane Addams Senior Caucus
Juneau Commission on Aging
Justice Reform League
Kathryn Pruitt Lab Consulting
Keep The Promise Coalition
Kentuckians For Single Payer Healthcare
Kentucky Alliance for Retired Americans
Kentucky State AFL-CIO
Kroll & Associates Architecture, LLC
KY Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Larimer County Health Care Action
LINC – Long Island Network for Change
Long Beach Gray Panthers
Louisiana Poor People’s Campaign
Love Humboldt
Lovelace Family Medicine
Maine AFL-CIO
Maine AllCare
Maine People’s Party
Mamaroneck Indivisible
March for Medicare for All
Maryland Progressive Healthcare Coalition
Medicare For All CT, Inc.
Medicare for All Florida
Medicare for All – Indiana
Metro Justice
Metro New York Health Care for All
Michigan for Single Payer Healthcare
Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates
Midwives for Universal Healthcare
Milwaukee County Aging and Disability
Mind Matters PC
Minnesota Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund
Minnesota COACT
Minnesota Nurses Association
Minnesota State Council of Machinist Retirees
Minnesota State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO
Missourians for Single Payer
Mountaintop Progressives
Move to Amend
National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse
National Association of Retired & Veteran Railway Employees (N.A.R.V.R.E.)
National Association of Retired & Veteran Railway Employees (N.A.R.V.R.E.) – Unit 109
National Single Payer
National Union of Healthcare Workers
Natural Healthcare
NC Alliance for Retired Americans
NC Medicare For All Coalition
NC Poor People’s Campaign
NE Bronx Indivisible
New Jersey Tenants Organization
New York City Organization of Retirees
NFSP
NJ Universal Health Care Coalition
North Carolina Green Party
North Carolina Medicare For All Coalition
North Carolina Public Service Workers Union/UE Local 150
North Country Access to Health Care Committee
North Country Fair
North Seattle Progressives
Northfield Area HCA-MN Chapter
Northwest Bronx Indivisible
Northwest Health Law Advocates
Northwest Indiana Medicare for All
Nurses for Single Payer
NY 21 Indivisible Group
NY Indivisible
NYCD16 Indivisible
NYC DSA
Oblong Valley Indivisible
Occupy Bergen County
Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund
OK Delaware
Older Women’s League – SF
One Payer States
One Queens Indivisible
Operating Engineers
Oregon AFSCME Retirees Subchapter 41
Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (OLÉ)
Our Revolution
Our Revolution Fort Bend County
Our Revolution Essex
Our Revolution Greenville SC
Our Revolution Harris County
Our Revolution Hillsborough
Our Revolution Monmouth
Our Revolution New Jersey
Our Revolution Northern Virginia
Our Revolution Ohio
Our Revolution Somerset County NJ
Our Revolution South Carolina
Our Revolution Trenton Mercer
Our Wisconsin Revolution
Own Your Mind Psychology Services and Consultation
Park County Democratic Central Committee
Partners for Dignity & Rights
PDA Central Florida
PDA of Central New Mexico
People’s Action
People’s Party
Pharmacists for Single Payer
Physicians for a National Health Program
Physicians for a National Health Program – Rhode Island
Physicians for a National Health Program – Washington State
Physicians for a National Healthcare Program – West Virginia
Pittsburgh Black Worker Center
Pittsburgh Green New Deal
Pittsburghers for Public Transit
Portland Jobs with Justice
Potter’s Guild
Pravda Counseling
Professional Staff Congress
Progressive Democrats of America
Progressive Maryland
Progressive Schenectady
Progressives for Democracy in America CFL Chapter
Protect All Children’s Environment
PSARA (Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action)
PSC Cuny
Psychotherapy Action Network
Psychotherapy & Organizational Development
Public Citizen
Putnam Progressives
Queens University of Charlotte Health Care Justice
Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Teachers Association
Reachout and Rebuild
Reno Psychotherapy
RESULTS Houston
Retired Public Employees Association
Retiree Council of SEIU Local 1021 (California)
Rights & Democracy
Rights & Democracy NH
Rise Up WV
RootsAction.org
Sacramento Sierra Digital Arts Studio Partnership
Samara Care Counseling Center
San Francisco Senior & Disability Action
San Mateo County Democracy for America
Santa Barbara Chapter of Health Care for All – California
Santa Clara County Single Payer Health Care Coalition
Saratoga Warren Washington Progressive Action
Schaumburg Area Progressives
SEIU Local 1021
Senior and Disability Action
Seniors Circle of the People’s Party
Shawangunk Democratic Committee
Show Up Long Island (SULI)
Shriver Poverty Law Center
Sim Rose Condo Association
Single Payer Action Network Ohio
Social Justice Indivisible
Social Justice Ministry of Live Oak
Southern Appalachian Labor School (SALS)
Southern Illinois People for Progress
StandUp WNY
Stanford Students for a National Health Program
Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Goleta, CA
Social Security Works
Solarpunk Portland
Solidarity Committee – Capital District
Southern Illinois People for Progress
Suffolk Progressives
SUNY Binghamton
Taller Salud
The Center for Social Justice and Reconciliation
The Fraser Valley chapter of the DSC
The National Retiree Legislative Network
The Southwest Collective
Therapists for Single Payer
Together We Will Long Island
Treadwell Corporation
Treatment Innovations
Troy Area Labor Council
Truthseekers – Health Justice Podcast
Twin Ports DSA
U-Act
UCSD
UE local 150
Ulster Activists
Una Payer Healthcare
Union Caucus of HCAO
Union County Democratic Central Committee
Union County North Carolina Senior Democrats
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
United Vision for Idaho
U.P. KIDS
Upper West Side Indivisible 97th St.
Vermont Health Care for All
Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Vermont Workers’ Center
Veterans for Peace Chapter 168 Louisville
Veterans for Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132
Veterans for Peace SAVE OUR VA National Campaign
Village of Interlaken Board of Trustees
Washington CAN
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Western PA Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare
Well Spouse Association
Whole Washington
Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice
Willow Wellness Center
Women For: Orange County
Women’s Voices Raised for Social Justice
Working Families Party
World Interdependence Fund
WV Citizen Action Group
* Updated July 1, 2024
In addition to the organizational signers above, advocates across the country have pushed their institutions to take independent stands against Medicare profiteering. These efforts have resulted in the following resolutions against Direct Contracting and REACH:
- Arizona Medical Association (passed April 23, 2022)
- Seattle City Council (passed April 26, 2022)
- International Association of Machinists IAM 751 Retirement Club (passed June 13, 2022)
- Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO (passed July 21, 2022)
- Texas State Democratic Executive Committee (passed Aug. 6, 2022)
- Alameda (Calif.) Labor Council (passed Aug. 8, 2022)
- National Unitarian Universalist Association (passed Aug. 24, 2022)
- West Virginia Democratic Party (passed Aug. 27, 2022)
- Troy (N.Y.) Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO (passed Sept. 2022)
- Albany (N.Y.) County Central Federation of Labor (passed Oct. 5, 2022)
- Humboldt & Del Norte (Calif.) Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO (passed Oct. 11, 2022)
- Sonoma County (Calif.) Democratic Party (passed Oct. 11, 2022)
- Solidarity Committee of the (N.Y.) Capital District (passed Oct. 13, 2022)
- Humboldt Progressive Democrats (passed Oct. 19, 2022)
- Capital District (N.Y.) Area Labor Federation (passed Oct. 22, 2022)
- San Francisco Democratic Party County Central Committee (passed Oct. 27, 2022)
- College of Complexes, Dallas (passed Nov. 3, 2022)
- Austin AFL-CIO Central Labor Council (passed Nov. 16, 2022)
- Labor Council of West Central Illinois, AFL-CIO (passed Nov. 28, 2022)
- Contra Costa (Calif.) Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO (passed Dec. 21, 2022)
- National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees, Unit 163 (passed Jan. 26, 2023)
- Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, Austin Chapter (passed March 2023)
- Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, State Executive Board (passed March 2023)
- San Mateo County (Calif.) Democratic Party (passed April 20, 2023)
- William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology (passed June 2023)
- American Association for Psychoanalysis in Social Work (passed June 2023)
- Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (passed Aug. 2023)
- Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (passed Aug. 2023)
- California State Legislature Joint Resolution (passed Sept. 7, 2023)
Ready to take action? Sign our petition demanding an end to Medicare REACH. You may also wish to call your member of Congress at (202) 224-3121. And be sure to let your friends, colleagues, and family members know about this ongoing threat to Traditional Medicare. Questions? Email organizer@pnhp.org.