The fight for universal healthcare is about more than just medical coverage—it’s about economic security, civil rights, and true democracy.
Right now, Illinois has a chance to lead the nation by becoming the first state to pilot real universal healthcare—a system where everyone has access to care, regardless of income, immigration status, disability, gender identity, or employment situation. For Solidora’s worker-owners, small businesses, nonprofits, and community partners, this isn’t just a policy fight—it’s a game-changer for economic justice and shared prosperity.
(Scroll down to the bottom of this page to send a letter to your state reps asking them to fight for universal healthcare now!)
Why Universal Healthcare is Essential for a Just Economy
1. Universal Healthcare Supports Workers & Small Businesses
💼 Worker-Owners: A worker cooperative like Solidora thrives when its members are healthy, secure, and able to fully participate in economic life. When workers aren’t tied to jobs just for health insurance, they can choose employment based on dignity and fair pay, not desperation.
🏪 Small Businesses & Gig Workers: Right now, small businesses struggle to provide healthcare for their employees, and many gig workers have no coverage at all. Universal healthcare levels the playing field—allowing small businesses to compete with big corporations that use employer-based health insurance as a control mechanism.
✨ Better Health = More Economic Stability: When people don’t have to choose between medical care and paying rent, they are more financially stable, able to invest in education, start businesses, and fully participate in the economy.
2. Universal Healthcare is a Civil Rights Issue
🏳️⚧️ Trans & LGBTQ+ Communities: Attacks on trans healthcare are part of a broader attempt to erase trans people from public life. Universal healthcare ensures that gender-affirming care is protected, accessible, and treated as the essential healthcare it is.
🧑🏾🦽 Disabled People: Disabled people face some of the highest rates of poverty and medical neglect due to our for-profit system. Universal healthcare removes the financial and bureaucratic barriers that keep disabled people from the care they need to live full and independent lives.
🌍 Immigrants & Refugees: Many immigrants—even in sanctuary states—are denied healthcare based on status. Universal healthcare closes the gap, making sure no one is left behind based on where they were born.
🛑 DEI Rollbacks & Right-Wing Attacks: The same forces attacking trans rights, disability protections, and immigrant inclusion are the ones fighting against universal healthcare. Their goal is to divide and conquer—our goal is to unite and build collective power.
3. Universal Healthcare Helps Build True Democracy
True democracy isn’t just about voting every few years—it’s about having the material conditions to actually participate in shaping your own future.
🔄 Healthcare is a Tool of Control: Right now, corporate interests and politicians use healthcare access as a weapon—forcing people to stay in bad jobs, tolerate unsafe conditions, and accept whatever wages they can get.
📢 Universal Healthcare Frees Us to Fight for More: When people aren’t afraid of losing healthcare, they can organize, advocate, and demand better workplaces, housing, and wages.
💡 Healthcare = Collective Bargaining Power: Universal healthcare removes a major source of worker vulnerability, making it easier for people to join cooperatives, start businesses, and stand up to exploitation.
How Solidora is Building the Future We Deserve
✨ We’re organizing businesses, workers, and nonprofits to build a cooperative economy where ownership is shared, wealth is redistributed, and people—not corporations—control our economic future.
✨ We’re mobilizing resources through impact investment, public funding, and cooperative financing to create worker-owned businesses, sustainable housing, and local food systems.
✨ We’re committed to making Illinois a national model—not just for universal healthcare, but for an economy that serves the many, not the few.
The Choice is Clear: Division or Solidarity
The right wing wants us to fight each other for crumbs—to believe that trans people, disabled people, immigrants, and workers all have different battles to fight. But we know the truth:
🚨 The same people fighting against trans healthcare are fighting to gut disability rights.
🚨 The same people blocking healthcare for immigrants are working to eliminate labor protections.
🚨 The same people attacking DEI in businesses want to keep workers poor and desperate.
Universal healthcare is our shared fight—a chance to prove that we are stronger together than we are divided.
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🚀 A real democracy is one where everyone has what they need to thrive. Let’s build it together.
Use the form below to send this letter to your reps:
Pass universal healthcare this year in Illinois!
I am writing as your concerned constituent to urge your leadership in advancing universal healthcare. This legislative session offers a historic opportunity for our state to set the standard nationwide by ensuring that every resident has access to life-saving care.
There are currently three universal healthcare bills proposed in the Illinois Congress, with at least two more anticipated. With the Governor’s campaign promise on universal healthcare and a Democratic supermajority in both the House and the Senate, Illinois is in a prime position to lead the way.
In fact, what was once a strong possibility for Illinois to become the first state with universal healthcare has now become even more achievable.
Our collective voice can ensure that every life is recognized as valuable and deserving of care.
This is a moment of extraordinary opportunity.
The coming months present the chance to harness the energy of this political period and drive meaningful change at the local level. Just as Ontario played a key role in Canada’s early adoption of universal healthcare, Illinois can inspire nationwide progress—despite any behind-the-scenes delays or industry pressures.
Healthcare is a human right, and our community deserves nothing less than a system that prioritizes well-being over profit.
I respectfully ask that you work diligently to overcome any obstacles and champion the passage of universal healthcare in Illinois.
Let’s use this historic moment to build a healthier future for all.
Thank you for your attention to this critical issue.