The initiative is a proposal to get universal healthcare coverage for every resident, no matter what, through the creation of a Washington Health Trust, which would be the first state-wide, publicly financed, not-for-profit healthcare system in the U.S.
is a volunteer organization of health care professionals fighting to get universal healthcare on the ballot next year, with 42,175 signatures as of Aug. 8, roughly 10% of the signatures needed to make it onto the 2023 ballot.
“In terms of what it covers, I like to say it covers everything, everybody, everything,” Stackhouse said. “It’s a huge expansion over what most people have covered, so basically, if it’s health care that you need, it’s 100% covered.” The Washington State Constitution requires enough signatures equal to at least 8% of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. With record voter turnout in the 2020 gubernatorial election, due to it aligning with a contentious 2020 federal election, the bar for an initiative is one of the highest, with 405,000 signatures needed to make it onto the 2023 ballot.
“I mean, it’s ridiculous how difficult it is,” Stackhouse said. “And if you really think about the initiative process as the citizen’s way of legislating, putting things on the ballot for consideration is way harder for citizens than for the legislature to do it.
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