What You Need to Know About the Bill for Improved Medicare for All
By Margaret Flowers for TruthoutPhoto: Activists display signs in the Healthcare Justice March in Baltimore, Maryland, October 26, 2013. (Photo: United Workers) This piece is part of Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All, a Truthout original series. As Republicans come under pressure from the White House to complete the process of repealing […]
Voters are Fired Up for Single Payer Creating Dilemma for Democrats
By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. On Sunday, June 4, the same day that Our Revolution, a Democratic Party group that arose from the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, organized rallies and die-ins to highlight the number of people dying in the United States due to lack of access to health care, the New York […]
Single-Payer Health Care Is Seeing Record Support in Congress
By Michael Corcoran for TruthOut Health care activists outside the Massachusetts State House on the April 8th National Day of Action for Medicare for All. This was one of many events held across the country. (Photo: Dave Madeloni) The primary Medicare for All bill has more support in Congress now than it has ever before. John […]
Democrats Against Single Payer
By Branco Marcetic for Jacobin Magazine. Photo: BRENDAN FITTERER | Special to the Times. Some attendees at a meeting with Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Palm Harbor, last month favored expanding Medicare. Ironically, the GOP could end up clearing the way for single payer. Single-payer health care has always been a goal of the Left. But Democrats have […]
Progressives are putting Medicare for All Back on the Table
By Jeff Stein for Vox. Abve photo: John Conyers (D-MI) in DC in 2009 (Progressive Fox). NOTE: Here are our main takeaway points from the article: 1. This is a sign that the political culture is shifting. 2. We must make sure that Democrats who support Medicare for All work to make it a reality, […]
DeFazio Gabbard Payne Velazquez Wilson Sign On to Single Payer House Bill
By Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action Call it a single payer boomlet. More and more members of the House of Representatives are signing on to co-sponsor HR 676, the single payer bill in the House. Just this week, five more members signed on — Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon), Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Donald Payne (D-New Jersey), […]
Single Payer Surge – Really?!
Interview with Dr. Carol Paris, President of PNHP By Joan Brunwasser of OpEd News. My guest today is Dr. Carol Paris, President of PNHP (Physicians for a National Health Program). Joan Brunwasser: Welcome to OpEdNews, Carol. I read an interesting piece recently: Amid GOP Attacks on Health Care, the Movement for Single Payer Is Growing […]
Amid GOP Attacks on Health Care, Movement for Single Payer Is Growing
By Michelle Chen for TruthOut. Above photo: Citizens swarm to check in before Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s town hall meeting at the Pewaukee Public Library in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on February 11, 2017. Sensenbrenner’s constituents have been asking at recent meetings about what will replace the Affordable Care Act — and so far, he has few answers. […]
Health Over Profit National Calls
Health Over Profit for Everyone is a national campaign to win a National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) healthcare system (also called a single payer health system). It is a project initiated by advocates for NIMA acting as individuals and is coordinated by Popular Resistance. We will hold regular national conference calls starting Monday, February […]
Obamacare: The Biggest Insurance Scam in History
Above photo: Protest outside the state’s largest insurer in Des Moines, IA with the Catholic Workers. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Originally published in TruthOut. NOTE: We wrote this in 2013 and we thought it should be shared again as people are pushed to defend the ACA rather than demand National Improved Medicare for […]