Primary care is affordable by all, effective at improving the public’s health, and will help us create a healthcare system in the US that is for people and not for profit as it right-sizes the bloated and inefficient healthcare market we now struggle under.  Providing a family doctor and a primary care practice to everyone will give millions of Americans an essential service they don’t now have and will improve the quality of the service that those who have it now experience.  For more information about the science behind these observations, see resources (coming November 1 2023).

The backbone of PC4AA is a series of short, biweekly webinars and Zooms, which will bring together hundreds and then thousands of people from around the country to build critical mass for change.  We’ll put out a call, inviting friends, family, neighbors, small business and colleagues to register and join us on these Zooms.  We’ll focus on why providing a family doctor and family medical care matters, on how communities can go about organizing themselves to provide primary care to everyone, and on the neighborhoods and communities that have achieved or made progress toward that goal.  As we identify groups of people from the same community who are participating, we’ll connect those people, encourage them to start a working group in their community, and we’ll support that effort with staff and organizing expertise.  

At the same time, we’ll provide initial organizing support and technical assistance to statewide coalitions that advocate for state level policy change. We’ll provide education and technical support to help them transition to their own independent advocacy organizations. We’ll provide information about how policy change works and what other states are doing or have done.  

We hope to educate candidates for governor in five or more states on the importance of providing primary care for all.  We’ll meet with individuals seeking to run for elective office, regardless of party affiliation, providing each with nonpartisan, data-driven information to advance our mission of bringing medical care to everyone.

Finally, we’ll build a national coordinating council to bring statewide leaders working on PC4AA together, so they can learn from one another and develop best practices that can be shared, and so they, and we, can consider the policy changes that are needed at the national level to make PC4AA a reality.

PC4AA is built on the understanding that every neighborhood and community is unique, and each has their own needs, assets, and capacities.  We believe the US can build a health care system if every community commits themselves to providing all residents with a family doctor and a primary care practice, and that the pathway to universal primary care may be different in different places.

We’ll start by working with twenty-five neighborhoods and communities.  Once those communities begin to provide primary care to all their residents, we’ll double that number, doubling the number of communities every year or two until we reach our goal, which is to provide primary care to all Americans.

We’ll also work together to advocate for the best health workforce, so communities are cared for by people they know and love and who know and love them.  That means we’ll work together to make it easier for students from our communities to become nurses, doctors and other health professionals, and to organize at the state and federal level to quickly expand our nursing, medical, and other schools for health professionals and to make sure their students represent and reflect the populations those students will serve.

Helping is simple.  Use our contact form to share your contact information and we’ll invite you to our biweekly Zooms.  Bring a friend or, better yet, bring two or three friends, and ask each of them to bring more people to each Zoom.  

Then join a working group in your community once there are enough of your neighbors to be effective in your neighborhood.  We’ll do all the organizational work.  All you need to do is participate and bring your ideas, energy, wisdom, and commitment.

And yes, you can give us money, which is critical as we build this movement.  We welcome your tax-exempt contributions.  But please also join us on Zoom if you can and bring a friend or two or even five.