Category: News

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...

Workers are struggling to survive in today’s predatory economic environment. Shifting the cost of healthcare to workers under the current profit-driven system is a painful feature of virtually every set of contract negotiations....

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...

March 4, 2019 SACRAMENTO — Less than one week after the introduction of a federal Medicare For All bill in the House of Representatives, a statewide, non-partisan coalition comprised of community, consumer, labor, health,...

Time to appoint the Council on Health Care Delivery Systems and build California’s Single Payer system now!!