My name is Pam Darpel. I’m a proud NNU retiree member, and I worked as a registered nurse for 42 years before I retired.
I saw a lot in my time as an RN. And I saw firsthand over the years how large corporations took over our health care system more and more, and CVS Health is no exception.
When CVS Health decided to donate $5 million to the largest anti-Medicare for All dark money lobbying group, I – along with hundreds of other volunteers and nurses – got to work.
From Honolulu to Houston, our movement has taken on the fourth largest corporation in the country to demand that they stop funding anti-Medicare for All efforts.
Together in September and October we visited nearly 400 CVS stores in 27 states and taped a CVS style receipt on the doors with the names of tens of thousands of people supporting our campaign. I visited 17 stores myself to make sure CVS heard our message.
CVS has been put on notice. We do not trust them with our health care, and we will not allow them to get in the way of our movement for true health care justice.
Stay tuned for our next actions and for some exciting plans in the new year. In the meantime, we need help getting more people involved and aware of CVS’ actions to block health care reform:
We know that Medicare for All would save the public $300 billion a year on prescription drugs alone, and with CVS taking in 25% of prescription drug revenue nationwide, Medicare for All would hit CVS’ bottom line by helping people get the care they need.
The big corporations like CVS Health are opposed to any fixes for our broken system because they benefit from it being broken, and because they have their own dark vision for the direction health care should go in.
We know that in order to win, we need to directly take on the health care corporations that are trying to stop us.
CVS is not our only target – it’s just one part of our bigger plan to win Medicare for All. We will continue to take on the dark money lobbying group that CVS supported with its $5 million donation – the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future – in addition to members of Congress that have yet to cosponsor Medicare for All in Congress.
We know that companies motivated by profit will never be a match for nurses motivated by care. We know that corporations have money, but that we have people. And we believe that we will win.
Please read and share our CVS campaign memo to grow our movement and stay tuned for what’s next.
In solidarity,
Pam Darpel, RN
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