Building Support for M4A by Taking it Off the Books -- 2022 Medicare for All Strategy Conference

Описание: Accounting principles are often seen as politically neutral collections of credits and debits. In fact, they are contested terrain that can have a huge impact on the distribution of wealth and power in the real world. In 1990, the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new rule to require private sector employers to list the cost of future retirement healthcare as a liability on their financial statements. In 2008, these requirements were extended to the public sector by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). These rules have led to devastating attacks on retiree health and welfare benefits and have placed additional strain on public sector budgets. This session will explain the impact of these FASB/GASB standards.

Participants will learn how to find this GASB liability in publicly available documents and use it to build support for single payer in your state.

Featuring Cindy Young of Healthy California Now!

Click here to access the "Taking Healthcare Off the Books" toolkit:
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This workshop is one of many videos from the 2022 Medicare for All Strategy Conference, an online gathering of activists, organizers, experts, medical providers, politicians, and people from all walks of life who just want to see everyone in this country get the healthcare they deserve!

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