AB 1900 Introduced for the 2026 Legislative Cycle
Call your CA Assembly Representative and demand that they
ADVANCE CalCare AB 1900:
https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers/find-my-rep
Sick of making wealthcare insurance companies rich? Tired of paying increasing premiums? Then demand your California state representatives stand against for profit insurance companies and fight for YOUR right to healthcare.
Talk to your California representative and tell them you want them to support and pass singlepayer healthcare for ALL Californians. Tell them to co-sponsor and vote YES on AB 1900, the single payer bill which was re-introduced on February 12, 2026, by Assemblymember Ash Kalra with the support of California Nurses Association.
1. Call your rep and urge them to co-sponsor and vote YES on AB 1900. Use the California Nurses Association’s tool to connect with your rep: https://act.medicare4all.org/call/calcare/?
Here’s a sample message:
“Hi, my name is ________ and I’m a constituent calling from _________.
I’m calling to urge Assemblymember/Senator ___ to co-sponsor and vote YES on CalCare bill AB 1900.
Healthcare costs are hurting me, my family, and my community, and we need a single-payer system that guarantees care for everyone — without premiums, co-pays, or surprise bills.
I want the Assemblymember/Senator to publicly support AB 1900 by signing the National Nurses United’s CalCare pledge — and stand with patients and healthcare workers, not insurance companies.
Thank you for taking my comment.”
2. Find your representatives at FindYourRepLegislature.ca.gov
3. Go to National Nurses United.com and find out if your reps have taken the CalCare pledge. If the haven’t taken the pledge, urge them to do so.
4. Go to OpenSecrets.org to see if they take donations from health insurance companies. If they’ve accepted donations from healthcare insurance companies, urge them to stop doing so.
They won’t do pass AB 1900 if WE don’t demand it. They work for US, not the insurance companies!
Video: Jeremy Logan Gray
Produced: Jackie Hernandez, Jiyoung Park
Additional Production: Selene Betancourt
Special thanks to Handbook Vintage
The Return of Single Payer in 2026 – CalCare AB 1900
Question and Answers about CalCare
Read about the history of the Single-Payer effort in California
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@JackieHernandez, MPH, CHES
So, why is getting sick in California getting more expensive?
Healthcare insurance companies are making more money by denying you care, increasing your health care premiums, increasing your co-pays and deductibles.
The solution to this — to lower your healthcare costs is CalCare, which is single payer healthcare
How single payer healthcare would work is really simple, way simpler than the system that we have right now.
All you would do is you would pay a tax a year that would go into the bucket of the system that we are supporting which is single payer.
From that system, which would be CalCare, for California, you would go to the doctor and then CalCare pays for whatever services that you need.
And there’s nothing, no surprise bills, no co-pays. You don’t have to do any of that. You just simply get what you need. Period.
Single payer healthcare would not be more expensive than the multi-payer system that we have.
Basically, all you do is pay that tax and then you don’t pay any deductibles, you don’t pay any co-pays, you don’t pay a surprise bill.
And for the unions who pay for a health care, they don’t have to worry about negotiating with healthcare insurance companies and trying to get these premiums at a lower price because it would already be included in everything that that we’re paying in taxes.
Cutting out the middleman would save us money because instead of paying CEOs and insurance companies, we would just be paying healthcare providers directly.
Will you get covered with single payer healthcare? is everything you already get with private insurance, but you would get more.
So, you would get mental health, you would get um long-term care, dental, vision, things that you usually have to get a separate insurance for or pay out of pocket.
But all of this is covered under single payer healthcare.
Single payer healthcare is not untested and it actually functions and works in many countries around the world like Canada, countries in the European Union, South Korea, even in Costa Rica.
So, this is not something new and people enjoy the benefits of singlepayer
healthcare in these countries. They’re not going broke every time they go to the doctor.
We know that single payer healthcare is going to cost less because we have so many studies. We have about 22 studies. One of them um was done by the Yale School of Public Health that stated we would be saving billions of dollars.
Gavin Newsom turned his back on his single payer promise by not pressuring California lawmakers to pass child care twice.
California has a history of healthcare advocates wanting to pass single payer healthcare. Um, and the last two times were with AB1400 and AB 2200.
These two bills were written by National Nurses United, which is a union that represents nurses throughout the nation, but specifically here in California.
They know everything that’s going on um at the bedside. They know everything that’s going on with their patients, and they strongly believe in a single payer healthcare bill to help them as well as their patients. These two times they were introduced in the appropriations committee but did not go through because legislators did not vote for it.
The legislators who voted no on this bill were not just Republicans, they were also Democrats. Why? Well, because they’re compromised because they’re getting funds by healthcare insurance companies.
So, what can you do? You can contact your representative in the state assembly, state senate. Let them know that you want CalCare. You can call them, you can email them, you can meet with them virtually or in person and tell them about CalCare. Tell them why you want it. The other thing that you can do in order to see where their loyalties lie is looking at opensecs.org and see who funds your representative.
If you see a healthcare insurance company donating to their campaigns or just donating to them, pressure your politician to not take any money from insurance companies. Insurance companies are giving donations to these representatives so they vote in their interest, not yours.
When you are looking into who to vote for or reelect or who’s already in that seat, ask them if they would sign the pledge for CalCare.
Are they committed to single payer healthcare to author it, to sponsor it, and to promote it? That’s going to be very important. Their actions are going to be stronger than their words of just saying, “Yes, I’m going to support it.”
You want to actually see a follow-up of everything that you’re asking them to do.
You can find out if a candidate is supporting Calare by going to national nursesunited.org and see if they have signed a pledge.
CalCare can only pass if we the people demand it. and it we’re louder than insurance companies. We have to pressure our legislators to make this happen and the time is now.
Contact your representative and demand that they support CalCare.
You can learn more by visiting national nursesunited.org.
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