In September, the Nonviolent Medicaid Army held simultaneous actions across more than 12 states with additional actions in the following days. At the beginning of each of these actions, leaders read this statement to politically ground and unify the action. Click here or below the watch the video! See below the statement for national HIGHLIGHTS!
Today, September 6, 2025, we are taking action together as the national Nonviolent Medicaid Army in more than 12 states across the South, Midwest, Appalachia and the Northeast to declare: Medicaid cuts = policy murder! We are exposing the violence of ongoing attacks on healthcare, the harm caused to our communities and how we’re coming together for support, survival and strategy. Healthcare is a human right!
This crisis didn’t start with this administration. One third of our people don’t have a primary doctor. Nearly half of us delay or don’t get care because of costs. Our working and housing conditions, the industrial food we eat, and the contamination of our air and water are making us sick. Further Medicaid cuts will result in hospital closures, impacting both rural, suburban, and urban communities while health care companies put profit before people’s lives. Millions more losing their healthcare and hundreds of hospitals on the chopping block is a national emergency in the richest country in the history of the world.
People on Medicaid are not the cause of skyrocketing healthcare costs. Those who are making millions – billions – off our sickness are the cause. Claiming that some of us deserve healthcare and others do not is an attempt to gaslight the American people. But we are not fooled. We know and see the truth. We all have a body, we were all made in the image of God, and we all deserve care. There is more than enough for everyone to have healthcare in this nation.
Today, September 6, we honor the birthday and lifelong work of Detroit labor leader and movement ancestor General Gordon Baker, Jr. who taught us to “make thinkers out of fighters and fighters out of thinkers” by continuing his work. We are building power and uniting across all lines of division, getting into step, and asserting our political independence. We won’t be silent anymore! Who are we? The Medicaid Army!
Highlights from the Day of Action for Medicaid:
- Rally for Medicaid and our hospitals in Newport, Vermont & press round up!
- Hoosier Motorcade for Medicaid caravan through Indiana
- The Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign, partnered with the NVMA, take action in Monroe
- NY NVMA speaks out in front of shuttered Mt Sinai Beth Israel hospital in NYC & in Albany
- Ohio NVMA takes their first collective action at Summa Hospital in Akron
- United Workers in Maryland rally across the urban and rural divide
- Southern Story Share brings leaders together across geography on zoom
- Mass NVMA demands more in Greenfield at at-risk hospital, Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Reflecting on her own conditions and highlighting the importance of our work during the Southern Story Share, Texas NVMA leader Denita voiced, “it’s important that we continue to organize. It’s important that we continue to build these states up. Because those of you who live in Texas [know], it takes three days for us to cross it, so we’re going to need a big army.”
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