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In June 2018, nearly 400 labor and social movement activists came together in Minneapolis for the National Single Payer Strategy Conference. The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Healthcare Now. Over 3 days, attendees marched through the streets of Minneapolis for guaranteed healthcare, listened to important plenary presentations, participated in […]

On April 18, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced the Choose Medicare Act into the U.S. Senate. The bill closely tracks the recommendations made in a January Article by Jacob Hacker and a February proposal by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Both Hacker and the CAP were leading advocates of […]

There are still those in the labor movement who believe that unionists should oppose single-payer Medicare for All because good union-negotiated benefits strengthen member loyalty and help to organize new members. This misunderstanding persists because the provision of healthcare is deeply embedded in the employment relationship. More than 150 million people in the United States […]

Stating that , “We have a real opportunity to achieve the labor movement’s historic demand for health care as a basic human right,” delegates at the AFL-CIO Convention today approved a resolution promising that America’s largest labor federation will play a leading role in the fight for Medicare for All. This resolution, said USW President Leo Gerard […]

Published in Cleveland.com September 20th 9:17 AM EST WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress is back from its summer recess and the problems with our nation’s health care system haven’t gone away. How to fix health care is once again being hotly debated. Recently, President Donald Trump warned Republican senators that they must do something or be confronted with […]

Last week was a watershed moment in the long fight for healthcare justice.  Senator Bernie Sanders submitted his long-awaited Medicare for All Bill (SB 1804) to the U.S. Senate.  He was joined by 16 cosponsors. The Bill would guarantee healthcare to every American from cradle to grave through an expanded and improved Medicare system and is the Senate […]

Six months of heroic resistance by millions of Americans has brought the Republican Trumpcare juggernaut to a dead standstill.  This week, Senate leaders officially announced that they were taking a breather from their holy crusade to gut Medicaid and deprive over 20 million of their fellow citizens of healthcare in order to give a huge […]

Last November, Trump promised to convene a special session of Congress as soon as he was sworn in to “immediately repeal and replace Obamacare.” It would happen “very, very quickly.” And with Republicans firmly in control of all three branches of government it appeared to be unstoppable. But it turns out that large majorities of Americans are […]

The Affordable Care Act never really solved the healthcare crisis. It treated healthcare as a commodity allocated through market forces rather than as a public good and failed to address the profiteering at the core of our healthcare system, forcing it to use a series of confusing and convoluted mechanisms to expand heath insurance coverage […]