On October 18, 2025, Kentuckians gathered in over 25 cities and towns to express their concerns. In Louisville where thousands protested, Jill Harmer and Harriette Seiler passed out over 900 Improved Medicare for All flyers. In Morehead, over 300 demonstrated at Fountain Park where speakers competed with the constant car honking in support. Morehead is the home of one of Kentucky’s 35 hospitals that are at-risk of closure in the face of Medicaid cuts and inadequate funding. Kay Tillow addressed an enthusiastic crowd calling for the enactment of a national single payer health care system, free from profit and covering everyone. Such an Improved Medicare for All system would save and sustain those hospitals by funding operating costs. Many signed the single payer petition.