The Latest: Updates from on the Ground

The Latest

Stay informed with the latest from Center for Health Progress. Here, we highlight key moments from our fight to get corporate greed out of our healthcare system, including legislative battles, campaign wins, and community stories.

  • Yesenia Beascochea

I am an immigrant and I know I deserve more

Nearly a year ago, on an ordinary afternoon picking up my son from school, I realized there was clearly something wrong with me. My right hand became weak and it was difficult to turn the steering wheel. The right side of my face started to sag and I couldn’t form a clear sentence. But my […]
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  • Staff

Taking the power to D.C. to build a bigger “We”!

To win progressive change, including a healthcare system that puts people over profit, we need to build a bigger “we” — a broad and powerful base of people who will fight for democratic control and systems that work for all of us. Center for Health Progress staff and eight of our leaders recently joined 900+ […]
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  • Andrea Escalera

No health justice without language justice

Ever since I can remember, I have been providing English interpretation and translation for my parents, who are monolingual Spanish speakers. Without other options, my parents were forced to rely on me to help them communicate, not just at grocery stores or school functions, but also as they tried to navigate more serious things like […]
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  • Dana Kennedy

Claiming what I want and deserve

Growing up, and for much of my life, I internalized the belief that to think only of others, acting out of selflessness, was the key to a meaningful life. All around me, I saw that those viewed as most worthy in our society were often celebrated for how much they served other people, even though […]
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  • Dayana Leyva

Stepping into my power as a first generation American

Growing up as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, I was taught to always be grateful for what I had, no matter how bad things were. While this made me very humble, it kept me from critiquing many of the systems in the US, even when they didn’t work for me.  I became uninsured at the […]
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