Author: HealthyCA

From the New York Times: “Ro Khanna will introduce legislation that lets states bundle all their health care spending — including Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act dollars and more — to fund a state-level...

The city council of the 2nd largest city in the country passes a resolution on the federal Medicare for All bill HR 1384. Wins in an overwhelming 10 to 1 vote. Read more on CommonDreams.org.

Gov. Newsom and the Legislature recently created and funded a 13-member Healthy California for All Commission to develop options for a statewide healthcare delivery system “through a unified financing system.” Single-payer advocates will have an opportunity to influence outcomes, building on the Commission’s data, research and policy options.

Ed Weisbart, M.D., a family physician and chair of the Missouri chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, wrote an op ed for the St. Louis Post Dispatch: The fact that the insurance industry is lobbying hard for this...

Watch Dr. Donald Berwick, former Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid, and a long time single payer supporter. This video comes to us via Social Security Works, a great group which works with the single payer...

Healthy California Now Chair Cindy Young is a longtime health care organizer who works with churches, community organizations and unions in the fight for health care justice and health as a human right. Vice Chair Sal Rosselli...

Californians have a right to quality, affordable, and accessible health care — a right to health care that doesn’t discriminate by age, income, gender or sexuality. Californians are ready for single payer health...

By Natalie Shure, writing for Jacobin. In the spring of 1969, a dozen feminists gathered at a women’s conference in Boston and came to a sober conclusion: their encounters with the United States health-care system had been...

By Robert Pollin, writing for LA Times. The California Senate recently voted to pass a bill that would establish a single-payer healthcare system for the entire state. The proposal, called the Healthy California Act, will now be...

By Paul Y. Song, MD, Contributor, Huffington Post. Nothing illustrates the middleman in our overall fight for health care justice better than this “Schoolhouse Rock!” styled video (above) launched today by Healthy California in...

By Melanie Mason, LA Times. When Jason Schadewald stepped up to the microphone to chime in with support for single-payer healthcare in California, he kept it short, stating his name, hometown and affiliation. But like scores of...

By John Nichols, The Nation. Bernie Sanders and the nurses are right: America needs a “Medicare for All” health-care system. And the change can begin in California. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and House Speaker...