You are invited to a nationwide gathering of universal healthcare advocates in Denver on August 1-2, online and in-person. Build relationships, share strategies and tactics, work on your skills, understand the power needed to fix how we pay for health care in America, sustain hope, fight threats, and envision success. Our speakers will give us insight, inspiration, and joy in our fight for healthcare justice. They will show us how the path to a one-payer universal health care system runs through the states.

Friday, August 1: 1:00-5:30 PM MT. 

Saturday, August 2: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM MT

• There is a fee for in-person registration to cover facilities and food. 
  For in-person attendance, register here.
  
  
• Registration is free for all online-only participants.
  For online-only attendance, register here.

If you register for in-person attendance to the meeting, you will receive an invitation to an in-person (only) reception and dinner ($25) at the home of T.R. Reid. When: Friday, August 1: 6:30-9:00 PM MT.

The Saturday session will open with brief comments from Abdul El-Sayed (online) and a keynote address by Rose Roach:

Abdul El-Sayed MD, PhD, is an American physician, epidemiologist, educator, author, and progressive politician. He is recognized nationally as an expert on healthcare reform and was selected to serve on President Biden’s Unity Task Force for Healthcare in 2020. He is the author of Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic and co-author of Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide.

Rose Roach is a prominent Labor leader and healthcare advocate, best known for her tenure as executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association and her national leadership in the campaign for single payer healthcare.

Links to speaker bios:

Abdul El-Sayed, Rose Roach, Rodney Sadler, T.R. Reid, Glen Mays, Carrie Rheingans, Joseph Jarvis, Egberto Willies, Jeanne Nicholson, Anne Watanabe, Abdul El-Sayed, Chuck Pennacchio, Andrea Miller, Stephan Ramdohr, Alan Minsky, Warren George, Lydia Guzman, Devra Dallman, Anne Jones, Kathryn Lewandowsky, Andre Stackhouse, Richard Gottfried, Melanie D'Arrigo, Marie Follayttar.

Please let us know your Preferences for Housing and Food. Solidarity housing may be available with a fellow activist in Denver either Friday or Saturday night. Hotels are available within a mile of the meeting venue (church).

Posted by Nathan Wilkes on July 24, 2025