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Since the cost savings are so substantial, the care impact so positive, the reform so popular and moral imperative so strong for single payer guaranteed healthcare, advocates often wonder why the US and California have not...

In the fall of 2020, our coalition of advocacy organizations, labor, community groups and healthcare professionals embarked on a revised strategy to move single payer, Medicare for All style reform in California. We sought to...

Healthy California Now president Michael Lighty wrote an article for The Nation asking why is universal health care seen as prohibitively expensive when the status quo costs far more: Under the current system, health care in...

Part of a series called Crossroads: Policy and Politics written by Michael Lighty, President of Healthy California Now What are we to think about policymakers who cannot avoid seeing the signs of a failing healthcare system and...

Part of a series called Crossroads: Policy and Politics written by Michael Lighty, President of Healthy California Now After all the hoopla of the recall, was it just sound and fury signifying nothing? That of course depends on...

Part of a series called Crossroads: Policy and Politics written by Michael Lighty, President of Healthy California Now Since legislators in the US began promoting national health insurance in the 1930’s, it has been the clearly...