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“As necessary as water”: Patients and doctors call for action on insulin prices

In the kickoff event of the Right Care Alliance insulin price campaign, a panel of patients and doctors came together to discuss the real effects of high insulin prices on their daily lives.

PRESS RELEASE: RCA Launches Insulin Campaign

Boston, MA – February 20, 2018: Today the Right Care Alliance launched a national campaign to curb the endless cycle of insulin price gouging led by Eli Lilly and other pharmaceutical companies.

Women’s health council writes up a storm!

While most people were preparing to watch the Super Bowl, nine members of the Women’s Health Council were getting together to turn their ideas into articles.

RCA chapters gear up for Drug Price Campaign

To prepare for the upcoming Drug Price Campaign, several chapters have been meeting to formulate their strategy, create working groups, plan direct actions, and practice their coaching skills.

More knowledge for power: RCA holds teach-in for health care activists

On MLK Day, RCA members and members of the greater Boston community came together to learn from health care experts on single payer, structural violence, fighting high drug prices, and more!

“If not now, when?” RCA ready to launch campaign after leadership training

This weekend nearly 50 RCA members got a crash course in community organizing, to prepare for the upcoming campaign on drug prices.

Introducing the new RCA chapter leaders!

Meet the new enthusiastic chapter leaders who are building a movement for right care in their city and helping launch the campaign to lower drug prices!

Women’s health council hosting multi-city write-a-thon

Building on the success of the first op-ed write-a-thon, we’re are organizing another write-a-thon – this time, focusing on right care in women’s health.

Gun violence is a civil rights issue, writes RCA surgery council

Gun violence is often seen as an individual, not structural problem. These trauma surgeons are speaking out to reframe gun violence as a civil rights issue and public health crisis.

Medical tattoos and ethical dilemmas

A guest blog from RCA Steering Committee member Casey Quinlan on why some people – including herself – have gotten tattoos of their medical preferences.