THE CHALLENGE: HEALTHCARE

The US healthcare system is not broken– it is working exactly as it was designed: to extract, exclude, and harm. It commodifies bodies, particularly Black, Indigenous, disabled, queer, and undocumented bodies, producing profound disparities in access and subsequent health outcomes.

Healthcare Abolition

Healthcare Abolition is a strategy working to establish an independent system for health and healing uncoupled from racial capitalism.

Political Pedagogy

A joyful space to build a shared language for this work, playfully learn from each other and those who have contributed to work before us, practice participatory education, and collectively dream into healthcare that doesn’t harm.

Healthcare Abolition Social Club

This is a time to kick it and spend time with other folks with an interest in or working towards transforming the landscape of health and healing in Minnesota.

Strategy Hours

Virtual drop-in office hours to address emergent healthcare issues and needs.

Statewide Agenda-Building

The Healthcare Reparation Cooperative called for care-minded individuals and groups across the state to join us for— From Constellations to Convergence: Mapping a Collective Agenda for Health and Healing in Minnesota — a two-day convening in October 2025.

Join Us At An Event To Dream Into Novel Systems

Resource Redistribution

Resource Redistribution is a strategy working to address the fundamental causes of health inequities and acts as a bridge between the present systems of healthcare and the future health and healing landscape we are collectively building.

The Reparations Project

The Reparations Project is a strategy working to address the fundamental causes of health inequities and acts as a bridge between the present systems of healthcare and the future health and healing landscape we are collectively building.

VIEW Reparations PROJECT OVERVIEW

SouSou Fund, From Article 8. Section 2.

The SouSou Fund is a strategic mechanism to mitigate ongoing healthcare harms. A certain percentage, determined by the Board of Representatives, of the Cooperative’s revenue is allocated into the SouSou Fund for redistribution at the end of the year. Members may also choose to have any patronage of net proceeds contribute to the Fund.

The Fund will then annually support a health-related intervention selected by members. Intervention examples include the elimination of a pool of medical debt, healthcare mutual aid, a street medic supply drive, or other value-related initiatives in need of one-time funding support.

Resource Redistribution Form

Redistribution and mutual aid are critical tools to address the linkage between health outcomes and access to resources.

Stay tuned as we reevaluate our role (whether as a connector, uplifter, or something else) in addressing this vital need.

Community Meaning-Making

Community Meaning-Making is a strategy working to catalyze authentic and cooperatively owned community-driven research to recenter health and healing narratives and solutions.

Meaning-Making Alignment Tool

This visual is shared to showcase the process for aligning a proposed Meaning-Making question with the Cooperative’s values. Questions are reviewed by the Meaning-Making class of membership. This is shared in the spirit of transparency and encouragement.